Tuesday Dec. 30, 2025 KUAC News stories:
1. State fire investigators found human remains Saturday in a house on McCarthy Road that burned down on Christmas Day.
2. An Alaska scientist participating in a major conference in New Orleans expressed alarm over the impact of federal funding cuts on Arctic research.
3. Residents of the Interior are getting a break today from the frigid temperatures of the past few days. Meanwhile, folks in the Mat-Su Borough were blasted again last weekend by hurricane-force winds.
4. People out on the Aleutian Island of Unalaska were getting hit with even stronger winds than those that battered the Mat-Su over the past few days.
5. In Juneau, a winter storm dumped more than two feet of snow and freezing rain on the capital city over the weekend.
6. The state Labor Department is offering unemployment benefits to Alaskans who’ve been impacted by Typhoon Halong.
7. Denali National Park and Preserve officials say they’ve opened an area north of the crest of the Alaska Range to snowmachine use.
