Gubernatorial candidate Dave Bronson has picked a Fairbanks man who’s a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and financial adviser to join his ticket. // Health care workers and others are meeting in Anchorage this week for the kickoff of a 5-year, $1.3 billion program to overhaul medical care in rural Alaska. // Fairbanks Native Association is holding a mental health resource fair this weekend intended to help locals stave off the winter blues. // The North Slope village of Anaktuvuk Pass has been short on fuel for about a week, and residents are trying to stay warm in frigid temperatures. // The Alaska Court of Appeals Thursday took up the case of a woman from Whittier who was indicted in 2023 on felony charges of voter misconduct

First responders rescued two snowmachiners who became stranded near Summit Lake last night, and Jessie Holmes is the winner of this year's Copper Basin 300.

Democrat Mary Peltola announced Monday she’s running for U.S. Senate, taking on Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan. // The U.S. Supreme Court has again declined to take up challenges to a federal law that protects subsistence hunting and fishing in Alaska. // Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Grier Hopkins is proposing property tax exemptions for new residential construction // The holidays have wrapped up for most of us. But for followers of Russian Orthodox tradition in Alaska, Christmas has just arrived. // Researchers are strapping cameras on to grizzly bears that live above the Arctic Circle to better understand their lives out on the frigid tundra.

A Saturday night crash on the Parks Highway near Nenana injured six people. // With the state legislative session just over a week away, here’s a look at some bills lawmakers are proposing. // Alaska’s junior U.S. senator talks new legislation, the Alaska gasline project and the U.S. intervention in Venezuela. // Two Soldotna-based Alaska State Troopers pleaded not guilty in federal court in Anchorage late last week to one count each of violating a Kenai man’s civil rights.

A medical office in Fairbanks is closing its doors as the owner faces charges of felony child sex abuse, and Canada's Yukon Quest sled dog race will not run this year.

1. Alaska State Troopers say traffic on the Parks Highway was delayed for 10 hours Wednesday when a semi tractor-trailer crashed into a bridge in Cantwell.2. Kinross Alaska has donated a million dollars to establish a charitable fund for grants to help organizations in Upper Tanana Valley communities.3. Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s foundation has donated $18 million to Alaska Pacific University.4. Great egrets landed early last month in Unalaska for the first time in recorded history. Biologists suspect Typhoon Halong brought the big birds in.5. A team of scientists has been studying areas around Nome to determine whether beavers are contributing to climate change.

Fairbanksans have been dealing with dead car batteries, uncollected trash, and other cold weather problems during the month-long freeze — but warmer weather is ahead.

Here’s how Alaska’s congressional delegation reacted to the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. // The Alaska Department of Transportation plans to start construction this summer on a bridge replacement project north of Healy. // Alaska state health officials continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns — despite a recent, controversial change in federal guidance. // The City of Bethel has agreed to pay a combined settlement of $10 million to two people accusing Bethel police officers of using excessive force.

The Alaska Bureau of Investigation has identified two Alaska State Trooper recruits who shot and killed a Fairbanks man after he allegedly charged an officer with a knife. // The federal government last week gave up its claim to ownership of the North Fork of the Fortymile River in Alaska’s eastern Interior. // The University of Alaska Fairbanks’s intends to sell one of two buildings at its Bristol Bay Campus. // Alaska will get $272 million dollars from the federal government this year to upgrade its rural health system. // Flu cases are spiking in Alaska, like in the rest of the United States and abroad.

Fire investigators have found human remains in a house on McCarthy Road that burned down on Christmas Day. // An Alaska scientist participating in a major conference in New Orleans expressed alarm over the impact of federal funding cuts on Arctic research. // Residents of the Mat-Su Borough were blasted again last weekend by hurricane-force winds. // People out on the Aleutian Island of Unalaska were getting hit with even stronger winds than those that battered the Mat-Su. // In Juneau, a winter storm dumped more than two feet of snow and freezing rain on the capital city last weekend. // The state Labor Department is offering unemployment benefits to Alaskans impacted by Typhoon Halong. // Denali National Park and Preserve officials say they’ve opened an area north of the crest of the Alaska Range to snowmachiners.