Thursday July 10, 2025 KUAC News stories:
1. The Alaska Incident command team that’s overseeing firefighting operations for the Nenana Ridge Complex gave a briefing Tuesday to residents of the community.
2. A lightning-sparked wildfire that has burned about 2,000 acres of Arctic Alaska tundra is the biggest wildfire on the North Slope in eight years.
3. Two Nenana women will spend a year in jail for defrauding their elderly neighbor out of her home in 2019.
4. An Alaskan tribe wants to celebrate Benny Benson, a young Native who created the design of the state's flag nearly a hundred years ago -- despite the racial prejudice that he endured as a child.