ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Republican Mike Dunleavy, who pledged to get tough on crime and pay Alaskans their full annual share from the state’s oil-wealth fund, has won the Alaska governor’s race.

Dunleavy declared victory early Wednesday, hours before his main rival, Democrat Mark Begich, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the midterm elections (all times local):

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Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Knight has conceded the last GOP-held House seat anchored in Los Angeles County.

Democrat Katie Hill holds a 2-point lead, and Knight said Wednesday that the voters have ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on the Alaska governor’s race (all times local):

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Republican Mike Dunleavy plans a news conference to announce some members of his transition team and Cabinet appointments after winning Alaska’s race for governor.

Dunleavy defeated ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on Alaska’s Nov. 6 general election:

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Republican Mike Dunleavy held a lead over Democrat Mark Begich after Tuesday’s election. But the race was considered too early to call.

As of 12:15 a.m. Wednesday, Dunleavy held a lead of 21,788 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Republican Mike Dunleavy held an edge over Democrat Mark Begich in early returns in the Alaska governor’s race late Tuesday.

Dunleavy, a conservative former state senator, had been the presumed front-runner for much of the race, which, until mid-October, included ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Polls in Alaska will open at 7 a.m. Tuesday.

Voters across the nation’s largest state will then have 13 hours to cast their ballots in the mid-term elections.

Among the high-profile races are those for governor and U.S. House.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A topsy-turvy governor’s race and a fight for the state’s lone U.S. House seat top the ballot in Alaska.

Democrat Mark Begich is taking on Republican Mike Dunleavy for governor after the incumbent, Gov. Bill Walker, bowed out.

In the House race, Republican ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Candidates rallied voters, visited churches and knocked on doors Sunday as they made their final pitches to Alaskans and worked to get voters to the polls.

The two major races on the ballot in Alaska are for U.S. House and governor. But Tuesday’s election also will ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Sparks flew in the final debate of the Alaska governor’s race, with the two major candidates jockeying to draw distinctions between themselves as the election nears.

Democrat Mark Begich dismissed as a gimmick a major piece of Republican Mike Dunleavy’s platform: a ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Republican nominee for governor in Alaska says he would eliminate a $4.5 million fast-rail study from the state budget. But there’s no such line item in the budget.

Mike Dunleavy, a former state senator, has campaigned on reducing state spending and limiting the ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is asking supporters to remove his campaign signs from public view.

Walker last week ended his re-election bid, days after his lieutenant governor, Byron Mallott, resigned over what Walker described as an inappropriate overture to a ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Democrat Mark Begich and Republican Mike Dunleavy tangled over crime and education during a one-on-one statewide debate Thursday in the race for governor in Alaska.

Begich, a former mayor of Anchorage and one-term U.S. senator, cited budget cuts as contributing to ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A vote for any candidate for governor and lieutenant governor on the general election ballot in Alaska will be counted, the state elections office said Monday.

That includes votes for Gov. Bill Walker and former Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott. Their names remain on the ballot ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on the Alaska governor’s race (all times local):

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The Division of Elections says a vote for any candidate for governor and lieutenant governor in Alaska will be counted in next month’s election.

That includes Gov. Bill Walker and former ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — For months, Mark Begich faced pressure from fellow Democrats to drop out of the Alaska governor’s race. Now, he’s their best shot at winning the seat.

The race was upended last week when independent Gov. Bill Walker dropped his re-election bid. He said he concluded ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — As a kid growing up on the East Coast, Mike Dunleavy dreamed of coming to Alaska — of hunting, fishing in wild streams and losing himself in the state’s vast, open spaces.

Now, after nearly 35 years in his adopted state, Dunleavy wants to become Alaska’s ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Bill Walker’s surprising announcement that he was quitting his bid for re-election with less than 21 days to go was an effort to boost Democratic rival Mark Begich’s chances of beating Republican Mike Dunleavy.

Walker, the only independent governor in the ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on the Alaska governor’s race (all times local):

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Alaska Gov. Bill Walker dropped his re-election bid in hopes of boosting Democratic rival Mark Begich’s chances of beating Republican Mike Dunleavy.

Walker, an independent, said Friday ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Bill Walker dropped his re-election bid Friday, three days after the sudden resignation of his lieutenant governor over what Walker described as an inappropriate overture toward a woman.

Walker’s announcement, made at the Alaska Federation of Natives ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Bill Walker said Thursday his re-election campaign is moving ahead but is taking it “a day at a time” after being rocked this week by the abrupt resignation of Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott.

Mallott resigned Tuesday over what Walker has described as an ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Some supporters of Alaska Gov. Bill Walker struggled Wednesday to understand the abrupt resignation of Walker’s lieutenant governor and what that means for his re-election hopes.

Byron Mallott resigned Tuesday after what Walker, an independent, described as an ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on the shake-up in the Alaska governor’s race (all times local):

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Questions remain about the viability of Alaska Gov. Bill Walker’s campaign following the sudden resignation of former Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott.

Walker’s campaign manager, ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Three Alaska gubernatorial candidates expressed disgust with the sentence of a man who assaulted a woman last year, with one suggesting, to applause, that the judge be removed from the bench.

Justin Schneider, who authorities say choked and masturbated on the woman, ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Some of the sharpest jabs during a relatively tame debate Thursday featuring the major candidates for governor in Alaska were aimed at Republican nominee Mike Dunleavy.

The conservative former state senator said later that his rivals, independent Gov. Bill Walker and ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Democratic former U.S. Sen. Mark Begich has refused to bow to calls from some fellow Democrats requesting that he end his run for Alaska governor, saying Tuesday that he’s in the race to win.

“It’s a three-way race, so get used to it,” he said surrounded by family and ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Former state Sen. Mike Dunleavy won the Republican nomination for governor in Alaska, setting the stage for what’s expected to be a three-way fight for the office this fall.

He topped a crowded field in Tuesday’s GOP primary that included former Lt. Gov. Mead ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on Alaska’s primary election (all times local):

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Former state Sen. Mike Dunleavy has won the Republican nomination for governor in Alaska.

The Wasilla Republican on Tuesday topped a crowded field that included former Lt. Gov. Mead ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Voters in Alaska on Tuesday will select a Republican to move on to what’s expected to be a closely watched governor’s race this fall and choose the latest contender to try to unseat the longest-serving member of the U.S. House.

Former state Sen. Mike Dunleavy and ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Republicans Mike Dunleavy and Mead Treadwell are vying to become the third person in what is shaping up to be a three-way fight for governor in Alaska.

The winner of the Aug. 21 GOP primary will advance to the general election. Waiting will be Gov. Bill Walker, an ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — In this year’s Republican gubernatorial primary, former Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell has not endorsed the man who served for four years as his lieutenant governor.

Instead, Parnell endorsed former state Sen. Mike Dunleavy of Wasilla. Dunleavy and Mead Treadwell are the ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A brother of Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Dunleavy and a prominent sport fishing activist have put hundreds of thousands of dollars into a third-party group supporting Dunleavy’s candidacy, a sign of Alaska’s new political reality.

Since 2012, the Alaska ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Bill Walker leads his rivals in available cash as the campaign season heats up.

In a filing with the Alaska Public Offices Commission, Walker reported contributions of more than $220,000 since early February. Walker ended the latest reporting period Friday ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Carol Hafner is on the Democratic primary ballot for an Alaska U.S. House seat.

She doesn’t live in Alaska. In fact, she’s never been to the state. Hafner, who listed New Jersey and South Dakota addresses in her candidate filing, says she’s serious about running, ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Mark Begich is a star in Alaska Democratic politics, a former U.S. senator and mayor of the state’s largest city, but his campaign for governor has some worried he’s playing spoiler in the race and could hand control of The Last Frontier to Republicans.

The worries ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Democratic former U.S. Sen. Mark Begich is running for governor of Alaska, complicating Gov. Bill Walker’s re-election bid.

Begich made his plans official shortly before a Friday filing deadline. Before the announcement, Walker, an independent, said he would skip the ...