Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about how Interior Alaska climate and weather play into the release and distribution of allergy triggering pollen.

The Alaska Legislature kicked off a special session Thursday to continue working on tax cuts for the Alaska LNG project. // University of Alaska officials are calling for a systemwide strategy to address challenges and opportunities ushered in by generative AI. // A Fairbanks man was charged Thursday with felony robbery and weapons misconduct for allegedly threatening a person with an assault-style rifle. // A Kenai man allegedly beaten and arrested by two Alaska State Troopers in a case of mistaken identity is now suing the City of Kenai and one of its police officers.

Dan Bross talks with National Weather Service hydrologist Heather Best about Middle and Lower Yukon River breakup and flooding conditions.

Firefighters have cut a line around a 15-acre wildfire south of Delta Junction to keep it from spreading. But it took a couple of days for eight smokejumpers, two fire crews and local volunteer firefighters to prevent the Sawmill Creek Fire from spreading.

Firefighters have cut a line around a 15-acre wildfire south of Delta Junction to keep it from spreading. // The state of Alaska is on track to offer managed retirement accounts to businesses in the state that don’t already offer a retirement plan. // Hospitals, fire stations and clinics in Alaska may soon have ‘baby boxes’ to safely and anonymously accept surrendered infants. // Ahead of Memorial Day, Alaskans hope the stories of their friends and loved ones aren’t forgotten.

Hundreds of thousands of Vietnam veterans developed illnesses from exposure to Agent Orange, an herbicide used to remove dense tree cover during the war.

The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly adopted a budget Thursday for the upcoming fiscal year. // The Alaska Legislature is headed for a special session focused on tax cuts for the Alaska LNG project immediately after lawmakers adjourn. // The Fairbanks City Council approved an ordinance Monday that gives city officials more power when clearing out illegal campsites. // A jury last week found a woman guilty of murdering her young son inside her Fairbanks apartment in October 2024.

Alaska smokejumpers are working to control two small fires in the Yukon Training Area about nine miles northeast of Eielson Air Force Base.

The Alaska House is racing to pass a bill offering tax relief for the Alaska LNG project before the regular legislative session ends. // A North Pole man died Saturday of injuries he sustained in a motorcycle wreck in Salcha. // Smokejumpers are working to control two small fires in the Yukon Training Area near Eielson Air Force Base. // The developer of a proposed natural gas pipeline took two busloads of officials on a tour of a Kenai Peninsula export terminal. // A Canadian company seeking to reopen a British Columbia gold mine plans to pilot a large boat up Alaska’s Taku River to get there. That worries area residents.

The Alaska Legislature wants the state’s development agency to finance multifamily housing, and a national organization honors a group that works to bring attention to Alaska’s missing and murdered Indigenous people.