Josi Shelley is on track to win the Yukon Quest Alaska 750.

1.The Alaska House Finance Committee adopted a new budget draft last week that makes a few small changes, and a really big one: it removes the Permanent Fund dividend. // The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly is fully funding construction of a long-delayed new animal shelter. // The state Department of Transportation will hold a series of virtual meetings this week to ask Alaskans for input on a 30-year transportation plan. // The families of three more victims of last year's fatal Bering Air plane crash have filed lawsuits against the regional airline.

The new shelter will replace the current facility, which was built in 1974.

A race official was rescued Sunday near Rampart after snow machining into overflow while out checking on musher Jonah Bacon, who was slowed by fresh snow on his way to the checkpoint.

The Quest 750 is being re-routed and another musher has scratched.

Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about the loss of Arctic glacier ice.

Yukon Quest frontrunners are taking required 24-hour layovers at the Yukon River Bridge checkpoint.

Alaska Rep. Nick Begich co-sponsored a bill the U.S. House passed Wednesday that requires voters to show proof of citizenship to register to vote, and a photo ID to get a ballot. // The U.S. Interior Department has extended the deadline to March 30th for public comments on proposed changes to the Federal Subsistence Board. // The nation’s anti-drug czar was in Anchorage Thursday to declare that state and federal law enforcement are keeping fentanyl and other narcotics out of Alaska. // 30 teams will compete in the 2026 Iron Dog snowmachine race scheduled to kick off Saturday in Big Lake and end next week in Fairbanks. // Organizers of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race say there’s enough snow on the ground in the Mat-Su Valley this year to launch the race in Willow on March 7th.

Competition is tightening at the front of the Yukon Quest Alaska 750.