Sam Stockbridge

Source data: Alaska Division of Elections unofficial results as of 4:06 p.m. Wednesday. The graphic at left shows the share of each House District 1 precinct that each U.S. House candidate received, while excluding the votes for the other nine candidates in the U.S. House primary race, which combined represent about 2.5% of the total vote tallied at press time Wednesday. Thus, percentages in that chart reflect each candidate's share only of the votes cast for those three candidates. The center graphic shows the share of each District 1 precinct received by all three candidates for that seat. Final numbers could change with the receipt and tallying of more absentee ballots.

Source data: Alaska Division of Elections unofficial results as of 4:06 p.m. Wednesday. The graphic shows the share of each District 1 precinct received by all three candidates for that seat. Final numbers could change with the receipt and tallying of more absentee ballots.

With two days until the filing deadline, just two people had filed as candidates for the three open three-year seats on the Ketchikan School Board as of Thursday night, making for an uncontested race and a possible unfilled seat after the election.

In the days since Sunday's landslide, Ketchikan Gateway Borough Mayor Rodney Dial has been a familiar face around the community and in some news coverage of the following events. But instead of his usual jeans and Ketchikan Gateway Borough fleece, he's been wearing khaki military fatigues. Why?

The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly will hold its first September meeting on Tuesday. It will hear more about last weekend's landslide and weigh in on the sale of 18 parcels of borough land near Mountain Point.

Ketchikan's local Emergency Operations Center is looking to wind down by the end of this week as recovery duties from the Aug. 25 landslide transition to municipal officials, the emergency operations manager said on Monday.

Local voters on Tuesday elected former Ketchikan School Board President Bridget Mattson as the newest member of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly and re-elected incumbent Assembly Member Jaimie Palmer for another three-year term.

FILE — People vote at the Ketchikan Plaza Mall polling station on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.

With less than a week until the general election, Jeremy Bynum has a commanding fundraising lead over his competitors in the race for Ketchikan's seat in the Alaska House of

On Nov. 5, a majority of Alaskans voted to re-elect former president Donald Trump, replace Rep. Mary Peltola with challenger Nick Begich, raise the state's minimum wage and retain ranked-choice voting. Voters in House District 1 backed all of those initiatives except one, and elected Jeremy Bynum to the state House of Representatives.