Tuesday Jan. 13, 2025 KUAC News stories:
1. Democrat Mary Peltola announced Monday she’s running for U.S. Senate, taking on Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan.
2. The U.S. Supreme Court has again declined to take up challenges to a federal law that protects subsistence hunting and fishing in Alaska.
3. Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Grier Hopkins is proposing property tax exemptions for new residential construction in hopes it'll accelerate housing development in the borough.
4. Researchers are strapping cameras on to grizzly bears that live above the Arctic Circle to better understand their lives out on the frigid tundra.
5. The holidays have wrapped up for most of us. But for followers of Russian Orthodox tradition in Alaska, Christmas has just arrived.
