Eric Stone, Alaska Public Media - Juneau

The Alaska Republican Party requested the recount, which is being performed at the state’s expense because of the close final margin.

Gavel Alaska will livestream the tabulation process starting at 5 p.m. It will determine the winners in several key races.

Roughly 5,800 ballots remain to be counted, largely from Anchorage and rural Alaska.

Nick Begich III now has 49% of first-place votes to U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola’s 46%, while Ballot Measure 2 is passing by a margin of 1 percentage point.

On Nov. 5, all voters across the state will have a chance to rank their choices for president and Alaska’s sole U.S. House seat. Plus, voters will also rank candidates in their local state House and Senate races.

Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat, said on July 23 that she's "keeping an open mind." She later said that she wouldn't vote for Trump.

The EPA is giving the state six to 12 months to come up with new or revised standards for more than 100 pollutants in state waters.

Some senior Alaska Republicans are crying foul after former President Donald Trump was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records linked to a hush money payment to an adult film star, a scheme that prosecutors said was an attempt to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

The measure came as an amendment to an otherwise unrelated bill that would require adult websites to verify users are 18 or older.

Alaska lawmakers in the state House are giving a skeptical eye to Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s efforts to challenge the federal government in court.