The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly will consider an ordinance Thursday that would change the name of Pioneer Park back to Alaskaland. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he will no longer try to reform the state’s schools during next year’s legislative session. // Sen. Dan Sullivan voted with Democrats last week on legislation to extend health care subsidies that failed to get enough votes. // Two semi-tractor trailers trucks were involved in separate accidents last Friday on the Parks Highway resulting in minor injuries. // Travel industry experts say Alaska is expected to have a strong winter tourism season.

A Fairbanks mining firm announced that it struck a deal to merge with a company in British Columbia. // Celebrated Athabaskan fiddler Bill Stevens died in Fairbanks last month at the age of 92. // The Western Arctic Caribou Herd was once Alaska’s largest; state biologists say the herd is now at its lowest numbers in five decades. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy released his proposed budget, setting the stage for months of debate in his final legislative session as governor. // Alaska Native veterans have until Dec. 29 to claim 160 acres of federal land, a deadline Sen. Dan Sullivan says he’s trying to extend.

Stevens died in Fairbanks on Nov. 28 at the age of 92. He’s credited with teaching several generations of fiddlers over the years.

A Fairbanks woman faces up to 99 years in prison for fatally shooting a man in May at a campground, and a new report from the state health department reviewed the COVID-19 pandemic in Alaska.

A donation fund has distributed millions of dollars to communities impacted by Typhoon Halong, and Gov. Mike Dunleavy is rolling out a new plan to stabilize Alaska's state finances.

Flooding from a sprinkler line break closed a building at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Tuesday, leading faculty and administrators to relocate some final exams. // Legendary Alaska adventurer Dick Griffith passed away earlier this month at the age of 98. // The federal government’s official name for North America’s tallest peak is Mount McKinley, but Alaska’s senior senator argues it shouldn’t be. // A program that helps boaters use buoys to track weather conditions wrapped another successful season this fall. // Last week, some music apps gave users their top songs, artists and genres of the year, so what were some Alaska lawmakers listening to this year?

The Fairbanks North Star Borough got another federal grant to support its public transit system’s ongoing shift to using vehicles that run on compressed natural gas. // The Alaska State Troopers are returning to television with a new show set to air in January. // After more than a century, a Lingít clan will once again be the legal owners of a Raven helmet worn during the Battle of Sitka in 1804.

State and federal law enforcement officers have captured a North Pole man wanted for the fatal shooting of a teenager in October. // A Fairbanks grand jury has indicted an Anchorage woman on charges of murder and assault related to a fatal shooting at Chena Pump Road home. // Transportation planners presented some findings of a summer-long survey Wednesday about bike lanes set up on two streets in downtown Fairbanks. // A federal laboratory devoted to renewable energy development for the past half century has had the word “renewable” stripped from its name. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy has OK'd a Defense Department request for Alaska National Guard members to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Anchorage. // Alaska sees the largest seasonal employment swing of any state, according to new data from the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development

State investigators have concluded that a woman who’d been missing since early last month died in a hotel fire in Glennallen, and government workers are in Fairbanks to help people impacted by the ex-Typhoon Halong.

The state is moving ahead on repealing a regulation that critics said would’ve complicated Fairbanks-area real estate transactions. // A union-organizing campaign is underway among ConocoPhillips workers on the North Slope. // Aleutian Airways has begun providing federally subsidized air service to three Western Alaska communities. // National mining and pro-business groups are trying to convince the federal government to again consider allowing companies to develop the Pebble mine.