This year’s $1,000 Permanent Fund Dividend payments will be sent out beginning Oct. 2. // The League of Women Voters of the Tanana Valley held its annual candidate forum on Friday. Today's report: Borough Assembly candidate Patrick Roach vs. incumbent Barbara Haney. // The U.S. Senate rejected two partisan spending bills Friday, bringing the country closer to an Oct. 1 partial government shutdown. // Sen. Dan Sullivan and the U.S. Secretary of Labor visited the Fairbanks Pipeline Training Center Friday to call for more workers to build the Alaska LNG project. // The U.S. Coast Guard is proposing a two-way shipping route along the northern Alaska coast to handle the growing number of ships in Arctic waters.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez DeRemer toured the Fairbanks Pipeline Training Center with Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan Friday.

A crowd of over 100 gathered in the Goldstream Valley to reflect on Mary Shields’ accomplishments and on her kindness.

Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about how warmer than normal North Pacific Ocean waters are affecting La Nina-El Nino pattern driven conditions.

More than 100 Alaskans celebrated the life of mushing trailblazer Mary Shields last weekend. A legal battle is brewing between Gov. Mike Dunleavy and the Alaska Legislature. In 2015, a man died in Lemon Creek Correctional Center after staff denied him medical care, and now, his widow wonders if the state has made any changes to prison protocol.