A state status report shows mixed results for well-being using a holistic approach with factors like food and housing security, environmental stress and education.

David Leslie, a longtime Fairbanks activist, scored a surprise fourth-place finish in preliminary results in Alaska’s US Senate primary.

It’s not a typo. The price of a gallon of gasoline in the northwest Alaska village of Shungnak was $26.82 on Friday, local residents and regional officials said, likely giving the community the dubious honor of having the most expensive gasoline in the United States.

University officials and students say the lower cost is a draw for higher education in Southeast Alaska New students at the University of Alaska Southeast attend orientation at the Egan Library on the Juneau campus on Aug. 21, 2026. (Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon) By Corinne Smith Alaska Beacon Under a driving Juneau rain, dozens of new students at the University of Alaska Southeast gathered Friday for orientation and to kick off the fall semester. This year, the public univers

NBC reports that federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas, but if so, they haven’t reached key figures in the US Senate race.

A quiet year for Alaska wildfires is closing out in dramatic fashion with a late-season blaze that has burned homes and prompted evacuations in an Interior Alaska community.

Candidate withdrawals may complicate the bottom of the ballot in some statewide general election races.

Two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees were among eight killed in a small plane crash near the site of a remote aircraft-tracking radar in western Alaska, the U.S. military said.

Both Alaska’s U.S. senators expressed support for the nomination of Kyle Reardon, a magistrate judge and former federal prosecutor.

Only five of 50 legislative races had more than four candidates in Tuesday’s top-four primary election, but there were some surprises.

More than 70% of participating voters approved the measure in early tallies published Tuesday night.

At least two polling stations in rural Alaska opened late for the Tuesday statewide primary election, the Alaska Division of Elections confirmed late Tuesday, and observers independently reported other sites also opened late.