Thursday July 23, 2026 KUAC News stories:
1. Alaska Airlines canceled 10 flights statewide Wednesday because of ash drifting over the state from an erupting volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
2. The 65th annual World Eskimo-Indian Olympics wrapped-up last weekend. And KUAC's Patrick Gilchrist recaps the event with the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner sports reporter Drew Blouin.
3. The Alaska Division of Elections has moved thousands of registered voters to its “inactive” list, due to suspicion that they are not citizens.
4. The Fairbanks Police Department has has found out the identity of a bicyclist who was involved in a fatal collision last weekend. But the're not revealing the suspect's name.
5. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has begun an emergency permit hunt for Alaskans to harvest muskoxen stranded on an island in the Bering Sea.
6. The support staff at the remote at Toolik Field Station work behind the scenes to keep the research facility 400 miles north of Fairbanks operating smoothly