Politics

With questions swirling about how the special election will play out, the Daily News spoke with candidates, elections officials and political insiders to help make sense of what comes next.

The Division of Elections has updated results in the special primary for U.S. House, and the finish order remains unchanged.

The next phase of the test comes on Aug. 16, when voters will rank the candidates in what’s been likened to an instant runoff election.

Sarah Palin is leading the pack in the special primary for U.S. House.

It’s become an Alaska parlor game to guess who’ll make the final four in the special primary. There are dozens of candidates, and we’ve never voted this way before.

The committee transported the audience back to Jan. 6 with video of what happened that day. It also made a strong case that former President Donald Trump was responsible for what happened.

The results in the special primary will decide which four candidates get on the ballot for the special general election.

Thanks to a federal Supreme Court decision last month, Begich can now recoup all of his loan in post-election fundraising.

Here’s how the candidates responded, in their own words, to a question about banning assault weapons.

Local political officials on both sides of the aisle shared some of their theories about why more people didn’t sign up to run for office.