Monday Aug. 11, 2025 KUAC News stories:
1. President Donald Trump says he’ll meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin this Friday in Alaska to discuss a deal for ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
2. Searchers on Saturday found the body of an Alaska Native man in Fairbanks who’d been missing since Wednesday.
3. Hunters from the North Slope community of Point Lay will collaborate with a UAF anthropologist from Russia this summer, to document traditional knowledge about walruses.
4. Alaska will get $6.7 million from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to clean up contaminated sites on land owned by Alaska Native corporations and villages.
5. U.S. Coast Guard officials said Friday they were monitoring two Chinese research ships transiting through American waters in the Bering Sea.
6. More than 2,000 people bought tickets to the first Midnight Sun Scottish Highland Games on Saturday at the Mushers Hall on Farmers Loop Road in Fairbanks.
