The Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC) is the state commission that enforces Alaska's campaign finance, lobbying and financial disclosure laws. It collects disclosure reports from candidates, lobbyists and officials, investigates complaints and fines violators of Alaska's election laws.
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Alaska Democrats ask Anchorage court to strike Tagle from November ballot
The Alaska Democratic Party asked a court to remove Republican Jose Tagle from the November ballot after Dahlstrom certified him over an APOC recommendation.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min read
A complaint tied to the Tshibaka-led Accountability Project challenges the Democratic ticket's disclosures
An Eagle River man's expedited complaint asks the Alaska Public Offices Commission to find lieutenant governor candidate Zac Johnson's financial disclosure did not substantially comply with state law. Johnson's attorney filed a sworn rebuttal Wednesday seeking dismissal.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago4 min read
Five Alaska legislators and candidates amend financial disclosures in two days
Five sitting Alaska legislators and 2026 candidates filed six amended Public Official Financial Disclosures with APOC on Monday and Tuesday, adding two Anchorage houses, two nonprofit board seats, a spouse's last name and corrected income dates.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Homer-based Republican group drops the Homer city election from its reporting
District 6 Alaska Republican Party amended its state campaign finance registration Sept. 5 to drop elections it is not participating in, keeping the Kenai Peninsula Borough election and the 2026 state primary and general. The filing names no candidates.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
A Soldotna council member's consulting firm earned up to $1 million last year
Soldotna council member Daniel Nelson reported $500,000 to $1 million in 2025 income from his emergency management consulting firm in an APOC filing.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Tribal consortium takes ownership of Alaska Native Medical Center
The Indian Health Service transferred ownership of the Alaska Native Medical Center to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium on Aug. 24, 2026, opening access to uncapped federal lease payments while the legal authority for the conveyance remains undocumented.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
The money gap in Alaska's ranked choice fight is growing
Alaska's campaign against Ballot Measure 2 reported $1.37 million in spending, while the campaign for repeal ended its last period nearly broke.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Dahlstrom reverses course, will certify Taylor for the November ballot
Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom said Friday she will certify Treg Taylor's nomination for governor and Jose Tagle's nomination for Alaska State House District 22, four days after refusing to certify both on the Alaska Public Offices Commission's recommendation.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Former mayor Harry Brower Jr. files to run against Patkotak for North Slope Borough mayor
Former North Slope Borough Mayor Harry Brower Jr. has filed to run in the 2026 election against incumbent Josiah Patkotak. Both candidates are from Utqiagvik.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
One donor has supplied two-fifths of what a progressive Alaska fund raised this year
A 24-hour disclosure filed with the Alaska Public Offices Commission on Wednesday shows Anchorage physician Emily Olsen contributed $10,000 to the Progress Alaska Political Action Fund, nearly doubling the fund's reported cumulative contributions to $22,300.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Two candidates file on the last day for Kenai Peninsula Borough offices
Teresa May Mullican filed for a Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly seat and Tamara Fletcher filed for a borough service area board seat on Aug. 31, the final day of the filing period for the Nov. 3 borough election.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Alaska's governor race upended in a day: a disqualification, a last-minute filing, and a lone Democrat
Alaska's governor race was upended Aug. 31 as Treg Taylor was disqualified and his wife Jodi Taylor filed before deadline, leaving a field of three Republicans and one Democrat.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min read
Assembly candidate Berga discloses North Slope job, Kenai Fish stake
Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly candidate Nathan Berga filed his financial disclosure Monday, reporting $50,000 to $100,000 managing North Slope drilling support for MagTec Alaska in early 2025 and ownership of Kenai Fish, LLC in Soldotna.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Dahlstrom will not certify Treg Taylor's nomination for governor
Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom announced the Division of Elections will not certify Treg Taylor's nomination for governor over a late financial disclosure.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Jai Mahtani is running for the Ketchikan council seat he resigned after a state settlement
Jai Mahtani resigned from the Ketchikan City Council after a $10,000 state settlement over jewelry origin claims. He is running for the seat again Oct. 6.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Tom Begich withdraws his campaign and endorses Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins
Tom Begich and Julia Hnilicka, who finished second in Alaska's governor primary, announced on Facebook Friday that they are dropping out of the race and endorsing JKT for Governor.
by Cale Green1mo ago3 min read
Planned Parenthood PAC registers for Fairbanks and Juneau municipal races
Planned Parenthood Votes Alaska PAC amended its Alaska Public Offices Commission registration Thursday to add the Fairbanks North Star Borough, the City of Fairbanks, and the City and Borough of Juneau to its 2026 campaign plans. The filing names no candidates.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Ketchikan's city filing window has closed, and voter registration ends Sept. 6
Ashley Snyder filed her candidate registration Wednesday for a Ketchikan City Council seat on the Oct. 6 ballot, naming herself campaign chair and treasurer and designating Global Credit Union on Tongass Avenue as her campaign depository.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
The Anchorage Assembly may audit every member's spending
Three Anchorage Assembly members are asking the Office of Internal Audit to review every member's $24,000 Individual Spending Account back to January 2023, expanding a narrower travel review. The resolution is scheduled for reading Sept. 1.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Ketchikan voters decide who owns the library and who pays for it
Kathy Bolling filed a Letter of Intent Aug. 23 to run again for the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly, and Judy Zenge filed Aug. 24 for Ketchikan City Council. Both seats are on the Oct. 6 ballot, alongside a library powers measure.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
A group backing Begich for governor has spent nothing, with a website waiting for the general election
Alaskans for Tom Begich disclosed a $1,116 debt to True Blue Associates LLC for a campaign website built for activation after the Aug. 18 primary, in an independent expenditure report filed Thursday with the Alaska Public Offices Commission.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Ketchikan's Assembly has fewer candidates than seats, with four days to file
Victoria OBrien and Marissa Medford filed candidate paperwork Thursday for two three-year Ketchikan Gateway Borough School Board seats on the Oct. 6 ballot. Filing closes at 5 p.m. Aug. 25.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
A fight over Alaska's elections, including over outside money, is itself funded almost entirely from outside Alaska
Both campaigns in the fight over repealing Alaska's ranked choice voting are overwhelmingly funded from outside the state, from national PACs and out-of-state billionaires, even as the measure targets outside money.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
A progressive firm's Alaska poll: two-thirds worry about the basics, and a simulated Senate race favors Peltola
A Data for Progress poll finds two-thirds of Alaska voters worried about health care, utilities and groceries, and a simulated Senate race favoring Peltola over Sullivan.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
One donor supplied 99 percent of the non-individual money behind Alaska's ranked choice repeal
Repeal Now reported $3,180.95 raised from 35 donors over nine days and $200,595 owed to Facebook and Google, while state records show $1,830,500 of its money came from Aurora Action Network, which files nothing of its own with Alaska regulators.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read
Mayor LaFrance faces a campaign-finance hearing over her 2024 expenditure reports
The Alaska Public Offices Commission has set an Aug. 26 hearing on a campaign disclosure complaint against Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance, filed by Anchorage resident John Gimarc over her 2024 mayoral campaign's expenditure reporting.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
A pro-Republican group discloses small ad debts for two House candidates, listing the creditor at its treasurer's address
Four days before the Aug. 18 primary, the Alaska Leadership Initiative told the state it had spent and raised nothing, then disclosed $728.28 in unpaid Meta ad debts backing two Republican House candidates, owed to a company listed at its own treasurer's Ketchikan address.
by Lucas Brown2mo ago2 min read
Alaska attorney general says law seating campaign finance commission is likely unconstitutional
A formal opinion issued Friday by Acting Attorney General Cori Mills says statutes forcing the governor to pick board members from private nomination lists are very likely unconstitutional. One of the eight bodies named is the Alaska Public Offices Commission, flagged by the same department in 1980.
by Lucas Brown2mo ago3 min read
A matter the Anchorage Assembly declared closed still draws a request for five minutes
Pastor Leon D. May filed an appearance request Aug. 12 seeking five minutes at the Anchorage Assembly's Aug. 18 meeting to speak about Assembly Member George Martinez, saying audience participation timed out at the last two meetings.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
A majority of Kodiak's assembly is up for election this fall
Four of seven Kodiak Island Borough Assembly seats are up in the Oct. 6 election, a majority of the body, with the candidate filing deadline Monday at 3 pm.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Alaska Democrats ask APOC to recommend removing House District 22 candidate from ballot
A dispute over a blank-then-amended financial disclosure by Anchorage House District 22 candidate Jose Tagle Jr. now rests with the Alaska Public Offices Commission after the elections division declined to remove him.
by Lucas Brown2mo ago3 min read
A new group formed to back Tom Begich for governor, days before the primary
A new independent expenditure group, Alaskans for Tom Begich, registered with the state days before Alaska's primary to support his run for governor.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago1 min read
A retired Wasilla man is spending $11,000 to oppose a candidate for governor
A retired Wasilla man committed about $11,000 in independent spending to oppose gubernatorial candidate Bernadette Wilson before Tuesday's Alaska primary, a report shows.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago1 min read
Complaints against Wilson and Taylor governor campaigns question donation source, not size
Alaska has no cap on what one person can give a candidate for governor, so the two complaints pending at the Alaska Public Offices Commission target other things: a $25,000 donation that may have come from a company, and $146,760.90 in spending labeled only "Retainer."
by Lucas Brownadded 2mo ago2 min read
Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Peter Micciche files to run again
Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Peter Micciche filed a Letter of Intent with the Alaska Public Offices Commission on Wednesday to seek the borough's top executive office again in the 2026 election, listing a Soldotna P.O. Box as his campaign address.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Murkowski says she will vote against Blanche for attorney general
Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Friday she will oppose Todd Blanche's nomination for U.S. attorney general, citing the Epstein files, immunity protections for the president and a nearly $2-billion Justice Department fund she says stays blocked only while the Senate holds leverage.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Bethel's mayor files to run for her city council seat again
Bethel Mayor Rose "Sugar" Henderson filed a letter of intent to run for a city council seat in Bethel's Oct. 6 municipal election. Full candidacy filings close Aug. 20.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Sullivan leads a push to sanction ships supplying China's fleet
Nine U.S. senators, led by Alaska's Dan Sullivan, asked Treasury to sanction 29 ships resupplying China's fishing fleet, arguing its illegal catch undercuts American fishermen.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Anchorage Assembly rejects investigation into member Martinez's travel, 5-6
The Anchorage Assembly voted 5-6 Tuesday against directing an independent investigation of Assembly Member George Martinez's taxpayer-funded travel, then declined 3-8 to reconsider. Vice Chair Daniel Volland said he no longer believes the accusation document behind the case.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
A substitute would swap Martinez's removal for a travel investigation
A substitute resolution would drop the Anchorage Assembly's effort to remove George Martinez in favor of investigating his taxpayer-funded travel since 2023. Members vote Aug. 4.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read