Candidates for Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board fielded questions from students at West Valley on Wednesday. The North Pole City Council passed an ordinance Monday to prohibit collecting donations from vehicle occupants. Sen. Lisa Murkowski broke from other Republicans on the Senate health committee at a Wednesday hearing.

Three small communities in the eastern Interior have upcoming municipal elections, and long-term plans for Alaska's three state forests are being overhauled to boost a new source of revenue.

Oil-industry leaders say a renaissance is underway on the North Slope. // The Alaska Legislature last week took a step towards suing Gov. Mike Dunleavy over an executive order he issued last month. // U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan joined fellow Senate Republicans last week to defeat a measure that would've required the release of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. // Alaskans can expect a La Niña climate pattern that could mean it’ll be a cooler-than-average winter. // Mushers will travel 750 miles this coming February in the 2026 Yukon Quest Alaska sled-dog race on a new route that will begin and end in Fairbanks.

There are 19 total candidates running for 12 seats in municipal elections within the Fairbanks North Star Borough this year, and collectively, their campaigns have raised almost $290,000. // The U.S. Department of Education announced last week that it will cut millions in federal grants for its Alaska Native- and Native Hawaiian-serving program. // The Isberg Recreation Area outside Fairbanks is set to nearly double in size because of a land donation from the Interior Alaska Land Trust. // One of the state's largest Native advocacy organizations says the U.S. Department of Agriculture's plan to reorganize could harm tribal food security programs.

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 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.

Fairbanks police evacuated one of the city’s Fred Meyer stores on Saturday evening, after a deactivated mortar shell was left in one of the bathrooms. // Alaska’s Department of Education released student assessment results Friday, with most students continuing to test below proficiency in core subject areas. // A University of Alaska Anchorage economics professor says President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill will have widespread impacts to Alaska in the coming years. // A national organization is suing Alaska’s Office of Children’s Services in hopes the court will mandate reforms to a system they say is failing Alaska kids.

The U.S. House voted along party lines Wednesday to repeal a land use plan that covers millions of acres in Interior Alaska and the Dalton Highway corridor. The search is officially on for a permanent chancellor at UAF, with the position now open to applicants. A number of unopposed races are taking shape in three small municipalities across the Eastern Interior in this year's municipal elections. Disagreement over the state's seizure of a Fairbanks pilot's plane may land the case before the U.S. Supreme Court. A grounded fishing vessel spilled more than 3,000 gallons of diesel near a salmon hatchery in the Kodiak archipelago on Monday.

The Trump administration unfroze federal funds set to help bring more EV charging stations to Alaska. The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District's Board of Education adopted a resolution in response to local concerns about immigration enforcement actions. The Alaska Department of Law is asking a judge to toss much of a lawsuit over the state's failure to process food assistance applications on time. Researchers mapped where bird traffic and ship traffic overlap in some of Alaska's waters.