State fire officials say a wildfire in the eastern Interior Alaska community of Tok has damaged 20 homes and is still growing. // Preliminary results from Tuesday's primary election are rolling in, showing early leaders in races for Alaska governor, U.S Senate and House and Alaska Legislature.

More than 100 firefighters from around the state are working to control the main fire as well as new flareups nearby.

Residents of Tok were ordered to evacuate their homes after a wildfire broke out Monday morning. // The final installment in our series of interviews with the top governor candidates features independent candidate Meda DeWitt. // The Get Out the Native Vote effort is working hard this year to improve Election Day turnout by Alaska Natives, which has faded over the past 20 years. // Today is Primary Election Day, and Alaskans have until 8 p.m. to cast votes for governor, U.S. House and Senate, and state House and Senate candidates. // This year's El Niño could bring a stormier winter in western Alaska and elsewhere in the state. // Gardeners and community leaders met last week in the Bering Strait region to learn how to grow food locally.

The Mukluk Fire, which was reported shortly before noon on Monday in the backyard of a home on the Alaska Highway, has grown to about 4.5 miles and is still spreading.

A landslide last week blocked off the only route between Skagway and Whitehorse, Yukon, and a brown bear attacked and injured a hiker in Anchorage.

Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about our unusually warm and dry August weather.

Money is pouring into Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, and it’s not just for the real candidates. // Alaska Public Media’s series of interviews on this year’s gubernatorial candidates features a familiar voice: Bill Walker, who's running again after serving from 2014-2018. // Juneau residents in the glacial outburst flood zone celebrated Thursday as the Mendenhall River crested at a level well below flood stage. // A wildland firefighter from the Northwest Arctic community of Noorvik died Tuesday while fighting a wildfire in Minnesota. // Federal game managers have announced that they’ve temporarily delayed the opening for a part of a popular subsistence caribou hunt in the eastern Interior.

Residents of the eastern Interior may get this summer’s warmest temperatures this weekend. // The ballot questions that Fairbanks North Star Borough voters will consider this fall could reshape how local elections work in future years. // Our series of interviews with Alaska’s gubernatorial candidates continues today with Republican Matt Heilala, an Anchorage surgeon. // The Alaska Department of Health announced the first round of funding for state projects under the $5 billion Rural Health Transformation Project. // Construction of a long-awaited and controversial road connecting King Cove to Cold Bay in western Alaska may soon get underway.

The Alaska Division of Elections may have violated federal law when it struck more than 3,000 people from its active voter rolls last month. // A local ballot question will ask Fairbanks North Star Borough voters in October if they want the borough to tally votes exclusively by hand in future elections. // Alaska Public Media’s series of interviews with candidates for governor continues with Republican Click Bishop. // The Alaska Department of Health has announced the first round of funding for state projects under the Rural Health Transformation Program.

If approved, one ballot measure would change the date of the borough election, which now happens the first Tuesday in October each year. It would move to the same day as the state and federal elections in November, the Tuesday after the first Monday in that month, if voters approve Proposition 2. The other measure, Proposition 3, would introduce a hand count-only method for tallying votes in borough elections and ban the use of machine tabulators for producing or certifying official counts.