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• Weeks before Alaska gets a new governor, its economic development arm goes on a spending spree

  12-11-2026 23:15 via KTOO
  The Anchorage headquarters of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, shares space with a sister agency, the Alaska Energy Authority. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz)
  A $25 million investment in a nuclear energy startup. Another $36 million for a controversial mining road. And up to $75 million for a new state-owned company promoting broadband.
  Those are among the multi-million-dollar decisions that GOP Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s appointees and state officials have made as part of a spendi
  
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• Buddy Bendixen: The last of Alaska’s Territorial Guard

  12-11-2026 20:25 via KTOO
  Buddy Bendixen at his home in King Cove, August 2022. (Courtesy Aleut Corporation)
  On Veterans Day, Alaska honors veterans from across the generations. But for the first time this year, none will come from the ranks of the Alaska Territorial Guard. Buddy Bendixen died on Oct. 26 at his home in King Cove, a small community on the Alaska Peninsula. He was 101 and the last known member of the ATG. His passing marks the final chapter in the story of the men and women who defended Alaska during World
  
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• Museum swap bring bones of hero dog back to Alaska

  12-11-2026 18:21 via KTOO
  A mount of Togo, the lead dog in Leonhard Seppala’s team that delivered life-saving medicine to Nome in the 1925 Serum Run, is seen on display behind plexiglass at the Iditarod Trail Committee headquarters in Wasilla on Feb. 25, 2022. (Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
  More than 100 years after he ran the longest stretches in a heroic dogsled mission to bring lifesaving medicine to snowbound Nome, Togo has returned to Alaska.
  Or, to be more precise, Togo’s bones have returned. The skeleton of the
  
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• Alaska’s U.S. Senate, governor’s races tighten with new ballot count

  12-11-2026 17:43 via KTOO
  Election day at the Mendenhall Valley Public Library in Juneau, Alaska on Nov. 3, 2026. (Alix Soliman/KTOO)
  Alaska’s U.S. Senate race tightened slightly in the latest batch of election results released Wednesday.
  Democrat Mary Peltola now has 48.7% of the vote to Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan’s 47.1%. Her lead narrowed from 4,250 votes Tuesday to 3,975 on Wednesday. She also fell below an important threshold: Her lead is less than the 4,100 votes cast for Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.
  
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