In a sprawling rural district that is the Alaska region with the highest poverty level, a freshman legislator from the population hub is defending his seat against a political newcomer from one of the outlying villages and a perennial challenger from a different village.

Early voting locations opened Monday across Alaska for registered voters to cast ballots in the Nov. 5 general election. The lone exception was in Fairbanks, where bad weather kept the early voting station from opening as scheduled.

Hafner is serving a 20-year prison sentence in the Otisville Federal Correctional Institution in New York after pleading guilty in 2022 to phoning in false bomb threats and threatening judges, police officers and lawyers in his home state of New Jersey.

Early in-person voting begins in Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Idaho, North Dakota, South Carolina and Texas on Monday. Here is what you need to know about the state-of-play in these states and how to cast your ballot in each ahead of Election Day.

As the 2024 election approaches, here's what to know about ballot tracking, vote-by-mail deadlines, and finding your polling site in Alaska.

Hajdukovich and Kawasaki will appear on the ballot for residents of District P in the general election on November 5.

The delegates also adopted a resolution endorsing U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, who is Yup’ik, as Alaska’s sole representative to Congress. She’s the first Alaska Native member of Congress. She’s in a tight race to hold on to her position in Alaska, which typically votes Republican.

The Alaska Federation of Natives voted Saturday to endorse the reelection of Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola and to oppose the ballot measure to repeal the state’s open primaries and ranked choice voting.

How did incumbent U.S. House Democrat Mary Peltola and Republican challenger Nick Begich make their case across three debates in one week?

With less than a month to go before the 2024 election, some Alaskans are already looking ahead to 2026. On Thursday, Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom approved a ballot measure that would reimpose financial limits on political candidates and donors.

Alaska House Speaker Cathy Tilton suggested on a talk radio show that Republican members of the House majority blocked an election bill because it would have increased the likelihood of Alaska's Democratic congresswoman holding on to her seat by making it easier for predominantly Alaska Native residents of rural Alaska to vote.