Wednesday Feb. 4, 2026 KUAC News stories:
1. The New York Times reports that 11th Airborne Division soldiers from Alaska have been told they no longer need to prepare to deploy to Minnesota.
2. Industry groups are pushing state lawmakers to quickly pass an appropriations bill to avoid losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal matching funds.
3. The federal government has begun a scoping process that could lead to wide-ranging changes to federal subsistence management in Alaska.
4. Residents of the western Alaska village of Brevig Mission are organizing to stop development of a huge open-pit graphite mine they say would threaten local hunting and fishing — their local food supply.
