10+ hour, 38+ min ago   (734+ words) Somebody messed with Alaska’s weather last month. Before anybody checks the skies for black helicopters, relax. On Aug. 23, a California company called Rainmaker Technology Corporation launched a drone near the head of Kachemak Bay and flew it into clouds cold…...

5+ hour, 48+ min ago   (124+ words) adn.com Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom first took Treg Taylor and Jose Tagle off the November ballot because of an APOC determination that they did not follow candidate financial disclosure laws. Then she changed her mind and put them back…...

6+ hour, 15+ min ago   (813+ words) A pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement....

5+ hour, 51+ min ago   (1171+ words) Rep. Andrew Gray of Anchorage is not a Swiss businessman. Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon is not selling fire sprinkler systems. Lieutenant governor candidate Zac Johnson isn’t running an equestrian fox-hunting club in Indiana. Days after the Alaska Department…...

6+ hour ago   (344+ words) Housing policy should not divide us when we are all interested in solving the same problems. We need to focus on solutions that respect people whether they are low income, middle income or high income. Anchorage has some rough edges…...

15+ hour, 24+ min ago   (437+ words) Sarah Short, a Republican candidate for House District 13 in Anchorage, sued the Alaska Public Offices Commission and the Alaska Division of Elections on Thursday, arguing that she was improperly disqualified from running in the primary after failing to file a…...

17+ hour, 46+ min ago   (1672+ words) JUNEAU — Alaska voters and donors in last month’s primary election showed the most support for candidates who say they will join a bipartisan coalition in the state Legislature if they are elected this fall. During the most recent two-year legislative…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (262+ words) The Alaska Legislature will join Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration in seeking to defend the state’s anti-bootlegging punishments in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. On Thursday, the joint House-Senate Legislative Council voted to hire an outside attorney to draft…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (181+ words) As we approach November, the political rhetoric becomes more vitriolic. The candidates tout their achievements while the big-money super PACs slander the opposition. That is to be expected. What this election is, and rightly should be, is a referendum on…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (52+ words) Anchorage Daily News Letter: The nonsensical battle over voting by mail Why is the president against mail-in ballots when he himself has used them? What is good for the president should be good for all. Stop cluttering the Supreme Court…...