A military training exercise started this week and is taking place in training areas around Alaska and in Greenland. // The City of Fairbanks is committing $40,000 in stopgap funding to the organization that operates the town’s only overnight, low-barrier warming center. // Millions of federal dollars were recently awarded to the Kodiak Island spaceport and its owner. // The Alaska Permanent Fund beat its performance benchmarks last year and is approaching $90 billion. // President Trump’s pick for surgeon general told U.S. senators Wednesday that anti-vaccine rhetoric was never part of her message.

President Trump didn’t mention any Alaska projects during his State of the Union Address. // Some Fairbanks City Council members are clashing with Mayor Mindy O’Neall over the next steps for the city-owned site of the demolished Polaris Building. // The Alaska Department of Transportation wants to give away a historic bridge on the Alaska Highway that’s scheduled for replacement. // Alaska senators advanced a heavily-modified version of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s tax bill last week.

State officials are calling it a win for Alaska’s economic sovereignty, but some residents are worried about losing longstanding subsistence rights.

The Alaska House approved a fast-tracked spending bill totaling nearly half a billion dollars on Monday. // A measure to repeal Alaska’s nonpartisan primaries and ranked-choice voting will be on the ballot this year, but disputes continue over the wording of the ballot question. // The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Friday that it’s getting ready to offer more than two million acres of federally managed land to the state of Alaska. // The Alaska Climate Research Center issued a report last month that says Alaska saw its 8th hottest year on record in 2025.

UPDATED: The North American Aerospace Defense Command said today that U.S. aircraft intercepted a total of eight Russian military planes Thursday that were flying through international airspace off the western coast of Alaska.

The final two finishers in the 2026 Yukon Quest Alaska 750 arrived Friday just hours before the awards banquet.

A weather system is dumping snow on Fairbanks and the Interior again today. And more is in store through Tuesday. // The North American Aerospace Defense Command intercepted five Russian military aircraft Thursday flying through international airspace off Alaska's coast. // The Alaska Federation of Natives urged state lawmakers last week to fix the fish and game management system that's causing problems for Native subsistence hunters. // A state legislator’s chief of staff was arrested last week and now faces charges of child sexual exploitation and child sex trafficking. // Alaskans pay some of the nation's highest prices for coffee, because of volatile markets and tariffs. // The two top finishers of this year's Iron Dog snowmachine race that ended Saturday in Fairbanks set a record for winning the race four times in a row.