Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about why few typhoons and hurricanes have developed and sustained in 2 large areas of the Tropics so far this year.

Thousands of acres near Delta Junction have changed hands in what the Alaska Farm Bureau president says it's the biggest farm sale in Alaska history. The founder of an influential, conservative Alaska blog says she resigned her this week due to a dispute with the site's owner.

Dan Bross reported for KUAC for over two decades, before retiring last year. Lawmakers from last year’s legislative session signed a proclamation recognizing Bross for his many years of reporting throughout the Interior.

Antimony reclamation operations started at the Mohawk property after an “exclusive VIP site visit” on Monday, the company says. Industry leaders, local and state elected officials and their staff, as well as staff for Alaska’s congressional delegation were among those invited. U.S. Antimony planned for about two dozen to make it to the tour.

A Dallas-based mining company says it has started work to recover a critical mineral from historic mining deposits at a site near Fairbanks. The Bering Sea Land Bridge National Preserve has renovated its center in Nome. An Alaska state representative presented a longtime Fairbanks and KUAC reporter with an award from the state legislature on Wednesday. The top oil-producing company in Alaska announced last week that it's planning significant layoffs.

UAF is on track to become a top-tier research institution by 2030, a scientist studying salmon decline in Canada is coming to Fairbanks to talk about her findings, and a man in Ketchikan is keeping a nautical musical tradition alive.

The vote was unanimous, as Councilmember Sue Sprinkle, who introduced the measure, joined the rest of the council in rejecting it.

The state Department of Transportation and Public Facilities has imposed weight restrictions on two old bridges on the Richardson and Parks highways. State officials say that’s to protect them from being damaged by heavily loaded trucks that pull two or more trailers.

The state Department of Transportation has imposed weight limits on two old bridges on the Richardson and Parks highways to protect them from damage by heavy trucks. // A candidate for the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Board of Education is suing her former employer over claims of discrimination. // The University of Alaska Board of Regents has introduced changes to its antidiscrimination policy to protect federal funding from cuts by the Trump administration. // The Alaska Division of Elections has identified 70 possible noncitizens who voted or attempted to vote in Alaska since 2015.

That year corresponds to the later of two timeframes the university has been eyeing since it launched a concerted push for Research 1 (R1) status. One of the goals in the UAF Strategic Plan is to achieve the status by 2027.