Friday Aug. 7, 2026 KUAC News stories:
1. The Alaska Division of Elections is sending follow-up letters to most of the 3,000 voters it removed from the state's active-voter list this summer advising them how they may be able vote this year.
2. Alaska lost more of its federal workforce than almost all other U.S. states to sweeping Trump administration job cuts last year, according to a new state report.
4. A looming firewood shortage in the Interior has residents and businesses worried that thousands of customers will have to find new sources of dry wood before winter.
5. The Trump Administration is again threatening cuts to the federal Essential Air Service program, which provides funding for flights to and from rural Alaska.
6. Alaska Public Media’s Eric Stone talks with former health and revenue commissioner Adam Crum in today’s installment of interviews with this year's top gubernatorial candidates.
