Alaska Native

Ranked-choice voting has challenged the status quo. Its popularity will be tested in November

Politics
Amanda Smith

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s new election system — with open primaries and ranked voting — has been a model for those ...

Head of Alaska’s largest Native organization says she’s leaving to make way for ‘new people and new ideas’

U.S.
Amanda Smith

Feb. 29—Julie Kitka, the longtime president of the state’s most prominent Alaska Native organization, is stepping down after 33 years. In an ...