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  • Patrick Gilchrist/KUAC
    The Trump administration reissued right-of-way permits for the Ambler Road project Thursday. Fairbanks North Star Borough officials say they’re searching for places that could offer stable housing for Typhoon Halong evacuees. Alaskans are trying to bring Halong evacuees in Anchorage some comfort from home through traditional subsistence foods. The growing season in the Interior this year was one of the longest in recorded history.
  • Tom Zimmer picks cherry tomatoes at the Calypso Farm and Ecology Center greenhouse on Oct. 9, 2025.
    Shelby Herbert
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    KUAC
    The governor and lawmakers have said they want to support Alaska’s growing agriculture industry, but farmers in the Interior say they’re largely on their own.
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    Snowflakes dusted their extravagant outfits and signs as temperatures dipped into the 30s.
  • Fairbanksans bundled up Saturday to voice their frustration with the Trump administration as part of the nationwide No Kings protest. // At least 25 communities around Alaska observed No Kings Day, including Fairbanks and also smaller towns, like Healy, Nome and Delta Junction. // Alaska Federation of Natives delegates called for an immediate emergency declaration from President Trump Saturday for communities hit by Typhoon Halong. // The Anchorage Health Department says a person who arrived in last week has been diagnosed with measles. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy visited two western Alaska villages Friday to assess the damage caused by high winds and flooding from Typhoon Halong. // Members of a panel that met Friday at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention emphasized the need for cooperation in managing subsistence use of fish and wildlife.
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    The Interior Gas Utility has received its first LNG from a new North Slope haul, but the utility's top executive says it'll be awhile before the haul is in full swing. The first iteration of a new hand count audit found the Fairbanks North Star Borough's voting machine tabulators were 100% accurate. A massive airlift is underway in Western Alaska as Alaska National Guard planes and helicopters transport people from villages devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.
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    A North Pole man died Monday of injuries he sustained in a head-on collision on the Old Richardson Highway. Fairbanks public school administrators say a new charter school would cost the district more than the committee proposing it estimates. Local officials are still searching for two people missing from a Western Alaska village after remnants of Typhoon Halong left one dead and much of the region devastated by high winds and flooding. Escalating tensions between the U.S. and Canada fueled fears last winter that visits from Alaska's neighbor would drop; now, port of entry data near Haines does show a decrease, but not a full-scale boycott.
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    Election results are being certified in many Interior communities, and Alaskans are coordinating relief efforts after a typhoon devastated Western Alaska.
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    Using samples gathered from a permafrost tunnel north of Fairbanks, researchers have awakened microbes that were last active as far back as 40,000 years ago.
  • At least three people were missing, one person died and fifty-one had been rescued after a record-breaking storm slammed into the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in western Alaska Sunday. // The first group of evacuees from coastal villages flooded by Typhoon Halong has arrived in Bethel. They’re staying at the National Guard Armory, which has been converted into a 100-bed shelter. // After the typhoon tore through western Alaska, remnants of the storm passed through the eastern Interior Sunday night. // The Alaska Department of Health issued a bulletin last week summarizing the Pertussis outbreak that surged last fall.
  • Coastal communities in western Alaska reported widespread damage over the weekend after the remnants of a typhoon brought hurricane-strength winds and record flooding to the area. // The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Board of Education's budget committee opened talks last week on next year's budget. // The Alaska Board of Education unanimously voted against a proposed regulation that would have limited how much money local governments can give to schools. // The City of Fairbanks is still figuring out what to do with the site of the Polaris Building. Meanwhile, city officials have partnered with a nonprofit that held a dance party at the site last weekend.
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    FNSBSD Board members met for a Q&A session with Pearl Creek charter school backers Monday, and the conversation is set to continue next week. The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to repeal the Central Yukon Resource Management Plan. The former state revenue commissioner is defending his decision to invest $50 million from the state's rainy day account in a private equity fund.
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    A Fairbanks man has been charged with murder after police responded to a report of a death Tuesday night. The Fairbanks North Star Borough Canvass Board began the new hand count audit Wednesday for this year's municipal election. Last month, tree tappers, chefs and scientists got together in Fairbanks to work on a flavor wheel for birch syrup. Funding for a program subsidizing rural air travel is set to continue through early November despite the ongoing government shutdown.