The Alaska Division of Elections may have violated federal law when it struck more than 3,000 people from its active voter rolls last month. // A local ballot question will ask Fairbanks North Star Borough voters in October if they want the borough to tally votes exclusively by hand in future elections. // Alaska Public Media’s series of interviews with candidates for governor continues with Republican Click Bishop. // The Alaska Department of Health has announced the first round of funding for state projects under the Rural Health Transformation Program.

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, Congressman Nick Begich and three Republican gubernatorial candidates aren’t contributing information to a voter guide being compiled by Alaska’s major news organizations. // Alaska Public Media's interviews with leading gubernatorial candidates continues with Republican Shelley Hughes, a longtime legislator from the Mat-Su. // A New York-based child welfare advocacy group has dropped a 4-year-old lawsuit that alleged misconduct in Alaska’s foster care system. // It's official: Fairbanks has been chosen to host the 2028 Arctic Winter Games.

The Alaska Division of Elections is sending follow-up letters to most of the 3,000 voters it removed from the state's active-voter list advising them how they may be able vote this year. // Alaska lost more of its federal workforce than almost all other U.S. states to sweeping Trump administration job cuts last year, a new report says. // A looming firewood shortage in the Interior has residents and businesses worried that thousands of customers will have to find new sources of dry wood before winter. // The Trump Administration is again threatening cuts to the federal Essential Air Service program, which provides funding for flights to and from rural Alaska. // Alaska Public Media’s Eric Stone talks with former health and revenue commissioner Adam Crum in today’s installment of interviews with this year's top gubernatorial candidates.

The University of Alaska is eliminating out-of-state tuition rates. // Alaska Public Media’s series of interviews with candidates for governor continues with Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins. // A North Pole woman was sentenced to 21 years in prison Wednesday for selling drugs that resulted in a man’s fatal fentanyl overdose. // An Azul Airlines plane briefly blocked the main runway at Fairbanks International Airport Wednesday. // Sen. Lisa Murkowski refuses to comment on how she’ll vote on the confirmation of Todd Blanche, Trump’s pick for attorney general.

A workplace-safety agency has begun an investigation into an accident that killed two people last week who were working on a septic project in Delta Junction. // A top City of Fairbanks official says he wants to stall certain public records requests submitted by Outside YouTubers. // A series of Alaska Public Media interviews with gubernatorial hopefuls kicks off with Democratic candidate Tom Begich. // The Trump administration wants to loosen offshore Arctic drilling rules that were put in place during the Obama administration. // Two dance groups — one from rural Alaska, and one from Chicago — met in Nome last week in an effort to blend contemporary and Alaska Native dance styles.

The Northwest Arctic community of Ambler has been without drinking water and sewer for five months. // The Alaska Supreme Court has decided that Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg can stay in the race for U.S. Senate. So, what exactly are his policy priorities?

The National Transportation Safety Board released its final report on the Bering Air crash that killed 10 people last year. // Authorities say a construction site accident killed two people working to install a septic system in Delta Junction last week. // Alaska librarians fear effects of possible cuts to a federal program that subsidizes school and library internet. // The University of Alaska and its new staff union have begun negotiations on a first contract, but union members aren’t impressed with the initial offer.

Golden Valley Electric Association’s board of directors have approved a new program to help co-op members who’ve fallen behind in their monthly payments. // As of now, every available seat for Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly and School Board will be contested in this year’s municipal election. // In addition to races for governor, Congress, Senate and state Legislature, Alaskans will face a ballot initiative in the Aug. 18 primary.// Lisa Murkowski and two other Republican senators voted Thursday with Democrats to limit President Donald Trump’s war with Iran. But the measure failed by two votes. // A small group of feisty women in Fairbanks recently celebrated the ten-year anniversary of the wrestling team they established.

Alaska State Troopers say three people were killed in a fiery plane crash Tuesday night near McCarthy. // 23 members of the Alaska Legislature are asking the state Division of Elections to immediately restore the voter status of thousands of Alaskans the division recently deactivated. // Years of sloppy bookkeeping have undermined ratepayers’ trust in Nome’s publicly owned electrical utility. // Alaska State Troopers are investigating the death of man whose body was found last weekend near Healy. // A $266 million Air Force contract will enable the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska on Kodiak Island to launch up to 18 rockets over the next two years. // State epidemiologists have found evidence of measles virus in Anchorage’s wastewater over the past month.

Dozens of stations that pilots and weather forecasters use went offline, and a federal judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit that would have prevented the transfer of millions of acres of public lands to the state of Alaska.