Quest mushers are making solid progress toward the race's halfway point, buoyed by village checkpoints.

Tribal leaders from across the country spoke out Tuesday in a Senate hearing against proposed changes in a federal program that benefits Alaska Native corporations. // The Interior Gas Utility’s general manager says the Fairbanks-based utility has officially completed transitioning to a North Slope source of liquefied natural gas. // The Alaska Department of Transportation is giving away sections of a World War II-era bridge on the Alaska Highway south of Delta Junction. // A Deering man was sentenced to a year and a half in prison last week [Feb.4] for sexually touching an underage girl on an airplane during a flight to Seattle.

The field is beginning to sort out as the race moves down the Yukon River.

Lisa Murkowski and three other U.S. senators returned Monday from Greenland, where they tried to repair relationships after President Trump’s threats to take over the island. // A UAF student has made his first court appearance after he ate a fellow student’s AI-generated artwork in an act of protest. // Workers at Alaska’s only major shipyard have been busy since a new operator took charge of the state-owned facility in Ketchikan last fall. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s fiscal plan is taking a beating as lawmakers and the public take a closer look at the proposal. Now, the governor is changing course.

Yukon Quest mushers face many challenges along the trail, and volunteers are there to support them.

“It shouldn’t be acceptable for this art to be put alongside these real pieces,” he said. “It chews up and it spits out art made by other people.”

Yukon Quest mushers will run into overnight low temperatures of around 40 below tonight and Tuesday as they traverse the Yukon Flats. // About a hundred people packed a hearing in Anchorage for six and a half hours last week on a controversial proposal to reform the Federal Subsistence Board. // Despite Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s advice, Alaska state officials continue to search for a solution to its long-running budget problem of spending more than it takes in. // A judge ruled last week that Alaska’s two largest news organizations and two top reporters did not defame an ex-state employee in a story they wrote in 2023.

Mushers are moving over the first one hundred plus miles of trail after starting in Fairbanks Saturday.

Cherish the Ladies are celebrating 40 years as a band. On their third visit to Fairbanks with the Fairbanks Concert Association, they made their debut on Alaska Live. Get to know these talented women of Celtic Music and hear reels, jigs and ballads on this session of Alaska Live.