Sean Maguire

Eleven candidates for the Alaska Legislature withdrew from Nov. 5′s general election.

The group seeking to repeal ranked choice voting and open primaries in Alaska had raised just over $61,000 by late August.

The head of the Alaska Division of Elections said that “we’re very concerned” by the incident and the agency is working with the U.S. Postal Service to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

People lined streets Tuesday afternoon to honor Sean Griffin, the city employee killed in Sunday’s landslide.

The landslide occurred on a day of heavy rain following a rare dry spell, but a state geologist said Monday it’s too soon to say whether that was a contributing factor.

The slide Sunday afternoon just above the Southeast Alaska city’s downtown sent tons of debris and mud onto a half-dozen homes, killing one person and injuring three.

Dahlstrom said her withdrawal was “the best thing” she could do to make sure incumbent Democrat Mary Peltola wasn’t reelected. Now, support from some national GOP figures who backed Dahlstrom has started shifting to Republican Nick Begich III.

Democratic incumbent Rep. Mary Peltola had more votes than her 11 challengers combined.

Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola had just over 50% of the vote after early results were reported in Alaska’s “pick-one primary.”

The division was scrambling to open several precincts before voting ended at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Voters will pick candidates for the U.S. House and the Alaska House and Senate. Primary election day polls will close at 8 p.m.

For the first time, a private contractor would help the state plow roads in Anchorage, the Mat-Su and the Kenai Peninsula. State officials say they’re better prepared for extreme snowfalls than last winter.

Voting in Alaska’s primary election ends on Tuesday.

The Legislature passed several measures this year intended to expand renewable energy in Southcentral Alaska as the region faces a shortage of natural gas.

Local scientists say mitigation methods at Suicide Basin seem ‘infeasible,’ while possible solutions downstream could still be hugely costly.