Monday Dec. 29, 2025 KUAC News stories:
1. A Fairbanks man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a man last month at a solid-waste transfer site off Farmers Loop Road.
2. State fire investigators are looking into the cause of a Christmas Day fire that destroyed a home south of Copper Center. One person was injured, another is missing.
3. Next year’s legislative session begins in less than a month, and lawmakers already have big plans for the year ahead.
4. The $900 billion defense-policy measure signed into law earlier this month includes special benefits for Alaska-based soldiers and Coast Guard members.
5. President Trump signed a bill into law on Friday that will give Alaska Native veterans more time to file for their Native allotments.
6. Nine seismic-monitoring stations in the Aleutian Islands lost federal funding this year and were set to shut down. But last-minute negotiations could keep them operating.
