Almost two dozen municipalities and boroughs across Alaska held local elections Tuesday, asking voters to decide on new mayors and propositions on the ballot.

Democratic Fairbanks Sen. Scott Kawasaki violated ethics law by holding constituent events too close to the 2024 state primary, a panel of the Alaska Legislature concluded in a report published Friday.

1,626 absentee and question ballots were run through a voting machine and added to the total, giving the borough its final, unofficial results.

Alaska’s U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan and U.S. Rep. Nick Begich remain without serious challengers ahead of the 2026 election.

According to preliminary election results, Knackstedt was elected Kenai’s new mayor on Tuesday with 461 votes. Douthit received 326, and there were five write-ins. On Wednesday, Knackstedt thanked Douthit for the “clean, gentleman’s race that the voters observed.”

Just over 20 years ago, a KMAland native departed the Midwest in a stick-shift pick-up truck on a trek to Alaska, and now, she is the new mayor

The Alaska Supreme Court ordered backers of Gov. Mike Dunleavy to respond to subpoenas that seek to find whether they violated state campaign finance laws in the lead-up to the 2022 election. Alaska's top court issued its ruling on Friday,