Monday Jan. 13, 2025 KUAC newscast stories:
1. A statewide nonprofit is exploring the idea of linking Fairbanks and Nenana with a trail system that runs through the Tanana Valley State Forest.
2. The Fairbanks City Council will meet tonight to consider an ordinance that would establish a Martin Luther King Junior city holiday on the third Monday of January.
3. No bids were received last week in the second congressionally managed oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska.
4. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will buy up to $50 million worth of Alaska pollock this year that'll go towards supplying food banks and other food-aid programs around the country.
5. Russian Orthodox communities across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in Western Alaska last week celebrated Slaviq, the celebration of the birth of Christ that's celebrated according to the old Julian calendar.
