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02-04-25 KUAC MORNING NEWS

KUAC Senior Reporter/Producer Tim Ellis

Tuesday Feb. 4, 2025 KUAC News stories:

1. The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District board will meet tonight to vote on a measure that would close five schools to help the district deal with a multimillion-dollar budget deficit.

2. Delta Junction-area residents will soon have to decide whether and how to restore emergency medical services after the city’s only ambulance operator announced it will stop providing the service.

3. Lawmakers are pushing Governor Mike Dunleavy’s administration to release drafts of a consultant's statewide salary study that he has so far kept under wraps.

4. Alaska legislators heard testimony Monday that nonprofits are facing immense uncertainty due to the Trump administration’s freeze on federal grants and loans.

5. Despite sparse snow in some parts of the state, the Iditarod Sled Dog Race's director says conditions along much of the thousand-mile trail to Nome are actually pretty good.

Tim Ellis has been working as a KUAC reporter/producer since 2010. He has more than 30 years experience in broadcast, print and online journalism.