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The National Weather Service predicts more rain and cooler temperatures today and possibly snow. // A University of Alaska Fairbanks project to locate critical minerals won a $7.5 million federal grant last year, but UAF hasn’t gotten any of that money. // There's a three-way race for Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly Seat C. // The Alaska Supreme Court has upheld an unprecedented decision by the state chiropractic board to revoke the license of a Fairbanks chiropractor. // A Fairbanks-based environmental organization announced last week it’s pausing programs and furloughing staff due to "serious financial strain." -
This year’s $1,000 Permanent Fund Dividend payments will be sent out beginning Oct. 2. // The League of Women Voters of the Tanana Valley held its annual candidate forum on Friday. Today's report: Borough Assembly candidate Patrick Roach vs. incumbent Barbara Haney. // The U.S. Senate rejected two partisan spending bills Friday, bringing the country closer to an Oct. 1 partial government shutdown. // Sen. Dan Sullivan and the U.S. Secretary of Labor visited the Fairbanks Pipeline Training Center Friday to call for more workers to build the Alaska LNG project. // The U.S. Coast Guard is proposing a two-way shipping route along the northern Alaska coast to handle the growing number of ships in Arctic waters.
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Oil-industry leaders say a renaissance is underway on the North Slope. // The Alaska Legislature last week took a step towards suing Gov. Mike Dunleavy over an executive order he issued last month. // U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan joined fellow Senate Republicans last week to defeat a measure that would've required the release of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. // Alaskans can expect a La Niña climate pattern that could mean it’ll be a cooler-than-average winter. // Mushers will travel 750 miles this coming February in the 2026 Yukon Quest Alaska sled-dog race on a new route that will begin and end in Fairbanks. -
There are 19 total candidates running for 12 seats in municipal elections within the Fairbanks North Star Borough this year, and collectively, their campaigns have raised almost $290,000. // The U.S. Department of Education announced last week that it will cut millions in federal grants for its Alaska Native- and Native Hawaiian-serving program. // The Isberg Recreation Area outside Fairbanks is set to nearly double in size because of a land donation from the Interior Alaska Land Trust. // One of the state's largest Native advocacy organizations says the U.S. Department of Agriculture's plan to reorganize could harm tribal food security programs. -
NewsA Dallas-based mining company says it has started work to recover a critical mineral from historic mining deposits at a site near Fairbanks. The Bering Sea Land Bridge National Preserve has renovated its center in Nome. An Alaska state representative presented a longtime Fairbanks and KUAC reporter with an award from the state legislature on Wednesday. The top oil-producing company in Alaska announced last week that it's planning significant layoffs. -
NewsUAF is on track to become a top-tier research institution by 2030, a scientist studying salmon decline in Canada is coming to Fairbanks to talk about her findings, and a man in Ketchikan is keeping a nautical musical tradition alive. -
The state Department of Transportation has imposed weight limits on two old bridges on the Richardson and Parks highways to protect them from damage by heavy trucks. // A candidate for the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Board of Education is suing her former employer over claims of discrimination. // The University of Alaska Board of Regents has introduced changes to its antidiscrimination policy to protect federal funding from cuts by the Trump administration. // The Alaska Division of Elections has identified 70 possible noncitizens who voted or attempted to vote in Alaska since 2015.
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Fairbanks police evacuated one of the city’s Fred Meyer stores on Saturday evening, after a deactivated mortar shell was left in one of the bathrooms. // Alaska’s Department of Education released student assessment results Friday, with most students continuing to test below proficiency in core subject areas. // A University of Alaska Anchorage economics professor says President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill will have widespread impacts to Alaska in the coming years. // A national organization is suing Alaska’s Office of Children’s Services in hopes the court will mandate reforms to a system they say is failing Alaska kids.
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NewsThe U.S. House voted along party lines Wednesday to repeal a land use plan that covers millions of acres in Interior Alaska and the Dalton Highway corridor. The search is officially on for a permanent chancellor at UAF, with the position now open to applicants. A number of unopposed races are taking shape in three small municipalities across the Eastern Interior in this year's municipal elections. Disagreement over the state's seizure of a Fairbanks pilot's plane may land the case before the U.S. Supreme Court. A grounded fishing vessel spilled more than 3,000 gallons of diesel near a salmon hatchery in the Kodiak archipelago on Monday. -
NewsThe Trump administration unfroze federal funds set to help bring more EV charging stations to Alaska. The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District's Board of Education adopted a resolution in response to local concerns about immigration enforcement actions. The Alaska Department of Law is asking a judge to toss much of a lawsuit over the state's failure to process food assistance applications on time. Researchers mapped where bird traffic and ship traffic overlap in some of Alaska's waters.
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NewsResearchers are mimicking fungi to create a new material to keep Alaskans warm in the winter, and a ballot initiative to broaden Alaska's access to psychedelic natural medicines — like magic mushrooms — took another step forward last month.
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Fairbanks voters on October 7th will choose who they want to sit in the mayor’s office for the next three years. KUAC talked with seven voters about who they favor. // The Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire Protection is investigating 11 human-caused wildfires around Tok that’ve been reported since last Thursday.
