Voters passed Ballot Measure 1 by nearly 16 percentage points. The measure will increase the minimum wage in three steps over the next two and a half years, reaching $15 per hour in July 2027. It also mandates paid sick leave for all Alaska workers, and bars employers from requiring workers to attend meetings on political and religious issues.

Ballot Measure 2 — which would have repealed the state’s system of ranked choice voting and open primaries — failed by 0.2%, or 664 votes. The Alaska GOP and state’s lieutenant governor want a review of the result.

Alaska’s top-four ranked-choice voting system survived by a whisker in the November election, but supporters may not want to pop the champagne corks just yet.

Republican Nick Begich has won the state’s U.S. House race, defeating Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. Begich, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won the seat that Republican Rep.

House Republicans scored a valuable pickup in Alaska's lone seat in the chamber, defeating Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola.

The G.O.P. united behind Nick Begich III, the conservative son of a prominent liberal Alaska political family, to beat Representative Mary Peltola, a Democrat.

Alaska's election has entered its final stage, after ballot counting concluded Wednesday. The results aren't finalized until a state review board completes its work, which is set to occur by the end of the month.

The measure to repeal ranked choice voting failed by 664 votes. Repeal opponent Scott Kendall is confident the outcome won't change.

The historic increase in representation of women came in Alaska even as voters did not reelect U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, the first woman and first Alaska Native person to represent the state in the U.S. House. Peltola was voted out in favor of Republican Nick Begich III.

Twelve jurors are set to decide whether former state Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux is guilty of election misconduct after her long-awaited trial concluded Wednesday. LeDoux was accused by state prosecutors in 2020 of encouraging people who did not live in her district to vote for her in the 2014 and 2018 primary and general elections.

Election reform backers argue that party-focused systems exclude swaths of independent voters who do not identify with any political party.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he is not taking a job in President-elect Donald Trump's administration and will instead serve out the rest of his second term as governor. For months, Alaska lawmakers and others involved with politics have openly discussed the possibility that Dunleavy could join Trump's cabinet.