Over the next few years, thousands of military families will arrive in Anchorage, and they’ll need homes in an already tight housing market.

The dust is still settling, and votes are still being counted. But in the meantime, here are four takeaways from Alaska’s primary election.

The Assembly will take up a roughly $600,000 contract with the tech company Thundercat for the police department’s Real-Time Crime Center, where officers would be able to access a wide variety of technology, from hundreds of...