Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about this week's Mukluk Fire in Tok and its similarities to another devastating late season blaze in the Susitna Valley back in 2019.

Eight people died Thursday after the charter plane they were flying in crashed on a remote cape in Southwest Alaska. // State fire officials have reduced some evacuation orders in Tok for the more than 5,000-acre Mukluk Fire. // A Nenana man has been charged for allegedly sexually assaulting an inmate while he was serving as an officer with the state Department of Corrections. // The Midnight Sun Scottish Highland Games returned to Fairbanks for the second year in a row last weekend.

The fire is still gaining ground in the northwest, and lightning could spark more fires in the coming days.

Tok residents find ways to cope amid destruction from the Mukluk Fire. // Delta Junction voters talk open primaries and ranked choice voting after casting their ballots on Tuesday. // Alaska's highest court heard oral arguments earlier this month over the constitutionality of the Mat-Su Borough School District's bathroom policy.

Fire officials say a downed power line sparked the fire on Monday. Since then, it’s has damaged or destroyed at least 20 homes and burned about 8 square miles around the eastern Interior Alaska community.

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.