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Drilling rig operation in oil and gas industry. Industrial concept. Southcentral Alaska’s largest natural gas utility said Tuesday it might not have the gas to make it through this winter. That’s after state regulators last Wednesday denied Enstar’s request that would’ve expanded natural gas storage in Kenai, as the region faces a looming natural gas shortage.

We accept food stamps sign seen in the front of a store Alaska’s food assistance program had the highest payment error rate in the country for a fourth straight year last year, according to rankings put out by the Agriculture Department late last month.

FILE – In this April 5, 2016, file photo, voters cast their ballots in a state’s primary (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Supreme Court ruled Monday that a man with the same name and party affiliation as Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan is qualified to run for the seat and ordered elections officials to place him on the August primary ballot.

FILE – Voters voting in polling place JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A man with the same name and party affiliation as Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan is eligible to challenge the senator in the August primary, a judge ruled Friday. Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews’ ruling overturns a June 15 decision by Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher to disqualify the challenger and keep him off the primary ballot. Matthews’ ruling can be appealed to the state Supreme Court.

This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard District 17 PADET Anchorage shows a U.S. Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station Sitka on a boat after being recovered from the site of a crash near Read Island, Alaska, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. The four crew members involved in the Nov. 13 crash survived. (Air Station Sitka/U.S. Coast Guard via AP) A Coast Guard helicopter crashed in Alaska Monday, and all four crew members were injured.

People waiting to vote Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, stand in a long line that wrapped around the Alaska Division of Elections regional office in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A man with the same name and party affiliation as Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan on Monday challenged a decision by a top state elections official to disqualify his candidacy and remove him from the August primary ballot.

FILE – In this April 5, 2016, file photo, voters cast their ballots in a state’s primary (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A top Alaska elections official on Monday ruled that a U.S. Senate candidate with the same name and party affiliation as Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan is ineligible to appear on the state’s August primary ballot.

FILE – Voters voting in polling place JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A top Alaska elections official has threatened to disqualify from the state’s August primary a U.S. Senate candidate who shares the same name and party affiliation as incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan.

FILE – In this April 5, 2016, file photo, voters cast their ballots in a state’s primary (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan acknowledges that sharing a name and party affiliation with the incumbent Republican gives him “an instant megaphone” in the crowded primary race. But Sullivan said his campaign isn’t a sham or something Democrats put him up to doing.

FILE – In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd migrate onto the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File) JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Trump administration’s push to expand oil and gas development in Alaska faces a new test Friday, with the latest lease sale set for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.