With former Alaska senator Ted Stevens out of office and fighting to stay out of prison, Congress has the opportunity to end an outrageous expenditure that wastes tax dollars while defiling the largest rainforest in North America. ...more

December 13, 2008

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term. ...more

November 18, 2008

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday she would consider serving in the Senate if God gave her the opportunity and Alaskans wanted her to take the job. The state's senior senator, Republican Ted Stevens, held a dwindling lead as the count resumed in his re-election bid. ...more

November 13, 2008

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called her critics cowards and jerks Friday for deriding her anonymously and insisted she never asked for the expensive wardrobe purchased for her use on the presidential campaign. ...more

November 7, 2008

Ted Stevens, a pillar of the Senate for 40 years and the face of Alaska politics almost since statehood, was convicted of a seven-felony string of corruption charges Monday - found guilty of accepting a bonanza of home renovations and fancy trimmings from an oil executive and then lying about it. ...more

October 28, 2008

Jurors were offered conflicting views of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens during a four-week corruption trial: a cantankerous but credible senator who didn't know he was being lavished with free gifts, or a sour-faced, scheming one who thought he knew how to quietly get undisclosed freebies. ...more

October 21, 2008

Some people worry, when they've been away from home, that they might return to find something missing. ...more

October 18, 2008

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens denied scheming to hide $250,000 in home improvements and other gifts from a wealthy businessman, taking the stand Thursday in his own defense at a corruption trial blocks from the U.S. Capitol. ...more

October 17, 2008

In October 2006, a longtime loyalist of Sen. Ted Stevens called him with a big problem: The FBI, he said, was breathing down his neck about a makeover of the senator's mountain cabin. ...more

October 7, 2008

A federal judge scolded prosecutors Monday for sending a potentially important witness in the trial of Sen. Ted Stevens back to Alaska, a move that defense lawyers asserted was intended to hide exculpatory evidence. ...more

September 30, 2008