Sharon Cissna

U.S. Rep. Don Young ended 2012 with more than $500,000 on hand. The Alaska Republican indicated he would run again in 2014 before even winning re-election last year. He handily defeated former state Rep. Sharon Cissna in November. He has served as...

Update: According to unofficial election results from the Division of Elections, longtime Alaska Congressman Don Young will return to the D.C. for his 21st term – marking over 40 years in office. It was essentially no contest with Republican Don...

Anchorage School District students made their presidential choices Tuesday as part of a civics exercise, voting on an unofficial abbreviated version of the Alaska ballot while their parents also went to the polls. ASD spokesperson Heidi Embley says 14,...

Rep. Don Young voted Monday morning before he and his main challenger, state Rep. Sharon Cissna, had their final debate at an Anchorage Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Young, who's running for his 21st term in Congress since he was first elected in 1973,...

Alaskan voters will help choose America’s next president Tuesday, in an election with almost every state lawmaker’s seat on the ballot and the future leadership of the state Senate an open question. Tuesday’s ballot is headed by the...

Update: The Alaska Primary Election results that were reported Tuesday night remained nearly unchanged after the state Division of Elections released an update early Wednesday morning. The latest update said 98 percent of precincts reported results as of...

More than 186,000 voters in the Anchorage area have registered to vote in Alaska's primary elections on Tuesday. The polls open Aug. 28 at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. For a full list of polling place locations in the state, click here. Election officials...

State office candidates rushed to file for this year’s primary elections Friday, producing several surprises before a 5 p.m. filing deadline. Fifty-nine of the state Legislature’s 60 seats -- all 40 House seats and 19 of 20 Senate seats...

Nearly everyone has at least rolled their eyes while going through airport security, now an Alaska lawmaker -- who had a bad experience -- wants to tell the Transportation Security Administration "hands off." Last year, State Rep. Sharon Cissna (D-...

 Alaska state Rep. Sharon Cissna, D-Anchorage, returned to Seattle Saturday to kick off her nationwide campaign against TSA pat-downs.  In February, TSA agents called for a pat-down of Cissna because they spotted something unusual in the body scan....

The Alaska House of Representatives passed a resolution Friday urging the Transportation Security Administration to reconsider its use of pat-down procedures. The measure, sponsored by Democrats and Republicansm emerged as an official response to the...

A Valley woman is on a mission to change how the TSA screens airline passengers. The effort comes after Corky Champagne-Einarsen who claims she was singled out at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport Feb. 20 -- the same day and location Alaska State Rep. Sharon...