In polling, the former Congresswoman appears to be neck and neck with Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan. Peltola spoke with KYUK while back in Bethel on the campaign trail. If elected, she would be the first Democrat to represent Alaska in the U.S. Senate in more than a decade.

Alaskans who are currently incarcerated and awaiting trial or sentencing, and those who have served their sentence and have been released from correctional supervision are eligible to vote in all elections.

A secret agreement provides the most detailed insight yet into one of the world’s largest prospective natural gas projects.

The vetoes leave untouched hundreds of millions of dollars lawmakers set aside for school maintenance, construction, and operations.

The State of Alaska's battle over managing fisheries on the Kuskokwim River has a big price tag. The state must pay $1.8 million to cover the legal costs of four Native groups that joined the federal government's lawsuit against the state.

On June 13, community members flocked to Riverview Park for the Return of the Salmon event put on by Mother Kuskokwim Tribal Coalition, a grassroots organization opposing the proposed Donlin Gold mine.

Alaska Native corporations rely on contracts awarded through the 8(a) program – especially from the U.S. Department of Defense – for a significant portion of their revenue.

Alaska is one of 29 states that allow at least some late-arriving ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked on or before election day. But a U.S. Supreme Court ruling could complicate that, especially for voters in the Bush.

Wilson says she’s a political outsider with a background in business who understands the needs of Alaskans in the way that her late, great uncle, former Gov. Wally Hickel, also did. Wilson spoke with KYUK ahead of her recent campaign stop in Bethel.

Subsistence fishermen are fighting the attorney general’s decision to overturn the board’s action.