With Election Night now almost a week away, there is only one certainty in Alaska’s U.S. Senate contest: the outcome will likely be close, late and unpredictable. Over the past decade, the Last ...

The fate of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda was in Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s hands — and she used that leverage to deliver more federal dollars to her state.

Sen. David Wilson, R-Wasilla, on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023 at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Wilson said the true value of Juneteenth was in its history, and that the cost ...

Alaska lawmakers have a history of crossing party lines to form majorities in the ... Former Alaska state Senate President Cathy Giessel plans to run for the Senate again this year after losing ...

WASHINGTON — Ted Stevens, who helped Alaska become the nation's 49th state more than half a century ago and then fought passionately for its interests for four decades in the U.S. Senate, died ...

He passed an equal rights law for Alaska Natives (although he also fully credited Elizabeth Peratrovich’s famous speech to the territorial Senate in 1945). He led Alaska through the war.

On that date, the Alaska Statehood bill passed the US Senate with a vote of 64-20. Although President Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Law on July 7, 1958, she officially became a state on ...

The Senate, on a 64-20 vote, passes a bill making Alaska the 49th state of the union. President Eisenhower will sign it into law a week later. It's the first state added since 1912, when New ...

With Republicans showing divisions in the state Senate, there's speculation that a coalition majority could form there as well. At least that's what Alaska Beacon reporter James Brooks tells us.