Your guide to Anchorage election candidates. Plus: Inside the last Iditarod checkpoint.

And: Anchorage mayor calls for defunding community council nonprofit after manager’s remarks on effort to kill Girdwood project Email not displaying correctly? [View the web version]( [Anchorage Daily News]( Support independent reporting on what Alaskans care about most. [Subscribe today.]( Good afternoon. It’s Friday, March 17. In today's newsletter: - Anchorage's regular municipal election is approaching. Find out where each candidate for the Anchorage Assembly and school board stands with our candidate comparison guide. - Anchorage's mayor wants to defund the nonprofit that works with community councils over accusations that its manager inappropriately engaged in political activity. - The Safety Roadhouse is one of the Iditarod's quirkiest stops, and it marks the beginning of the end of the race trail. For snowmachiners, tourists and mushers, there’s nowhere quite like it. There's plenty going on [in Anchorage this weekend](. For one thing, it's St. Patrick’s Day, and the state 1A/2A high school state basketball tournament is ongoing (more on that below!). Beyond that, you can enjoy a Native art market, live comedy and musical events, including a concert by country legend Rosanne Cash. 🌨️ Anchorage weather Snow is likely to continue through this evening, with cloudy skies and a high near 35 degrees. Saturday will start out with a slight chance of snow and will be mostly cloudy, while Sunday should be partly sunny. Daytime temperatures will climb up to the high 30s this weekend. Here’s what else is making headlines in Alaska today. — Megan Pacer, mpacer@adn.com [Q&As with Anchorage Assembly and school board candidates in the 2023 municipal election]( [Q&As with Anchorage Assembly and school board candidates in the 2023 municipal election]( The Daily News collaborated with Alaska Public Media on a candidate comparison guide for the 2023 municipal election. Here’s what the candidates for Anchorage Assembly and the school board had to say about their priorities and many of the issues Anchorage voters said they care about most. [Read More]( [Mayor calls for defunding community council nonprofit after manager’s remarks on effort to kill Girdwood project]( [Mayor calls for defunding community council nonprofit after manager’s remarks on effort to kill Girdwood project]( Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson says he wants to defund the nonprofit that works with the city’s community councils after its manager, at a recent meeting with Girdwood residents, indicated he’d advised the residents on a strategy to kill a housing development proposal. [Read More]( [Hustling, hot dogs and sanctuary at the last Iditarod checkpoint]( [Hustling, hot dogs and sanctuary at the last Iditarod checkpoint]( At the last Iditarod checkpoint before Nome, sled dog teams don't often stop if they can help it. But passing snowmachiners, race vets and tourists can find a hot meal and a drink at the Safety Roadhouse — a fixture of the Iditarod and the beginning of the end for battered, weary, red-eyed mushers. • Photos: [Nome welcomes more of the Iditarod pack at the finish line]( [Read More]( ADVERTISEMENT [ADN Politics podcast: The battle over the Willow project ]( [ADN Politics podcast: The battle over the Willow project]( On this episode, host Elizabeth Harball talks with reporters Alex DeMarban and Riley Rogerson about the Biden administration's approval of ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil project, which came despite massive pressure from environmental groups. • Related: [Interior Secretary Haaland criticized over Biden administration’s ‘difficult’ choice on Willow project]( [Read More]( [Theft from team van left Shishmaref girls without uniforms in Anchorage. Offers of help poured in.]( [Theft from team van left Shishmaref girls without uniforms in Anchorage. 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