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. The report was published by the Senate subcommittee of the Legislature’s Select Committee on Legislative Ethics, which recommended no penalty.

According to unofficial election night results made available by the city of Fairbanks, O’Neall received 1,808 votes (54 percent) and Pruhs received 1,528 votes (45.7 percent). Newsweek has contacted Pruhs and O'Neall for comment via emails sent outside regular business hours.

Incumbent Republican David Pruhs lost his bid for reelection as mayor of historically red Fairbanks, Alaska, to Democratic candidate Mindy O’Neall. O’Neall, who had the backing of the state’s Democratic Party,

Most of Alaska’s local governments will hold municipal elections on Oct. 7, and voting has already begun in many places.

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

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, affirming a lower court decision from January 2024.

Yesterday was municipal election day all over Alaska. Polls were open for most of the day, but many residents chose to vote early. Residents in Ketchikan have both a borough election to vote in and a city 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.”

This year’s ballot features three propositions, four candidates running for three open seats on the Assembly and four candidates running for three seats on the school board. One write-in candidate for school board is not featured on the ballot.

Voters in a proposed Ninilchik Recreation Service Area appear to oppose the proposition that would have created the service area.

U.S. Republican Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska won re-election, Edison Research and television networks projected on Wednesday, leaving control of the Senate to be determined in January by two runoff elections in Georgia.