The Summit Lake Wildfire has torched over 6,000 acres since it started last week, and it’s nowhere close to being contained.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection opened the Poker Creek Port of Entry Sunday. It’s the agency’s farthest-north border-crossing that connects the Taylor Highway in the eastern Interior to the Top of the world Highway in the Yukon, which leads to Dawson City.

It’s springtime, and Alaskans are breaking out their all-terrain vehicles and hitting the trails. But Alaska State Troopers say a lot of those ATVs also are being driven on public roads. So they’re reminding those drivers that if they ride on roads, they must obey the law.

A University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher says her research team’s recent study shows electric vehicles could benefit rural communities around the state that are off the road system.

At a Wednesday meeting, the Fairbanks Area Surface Transportation Planning policy board voted to table indefinitely an updated operating agreement with the Alaska Department of Transportation.

Demand for electric vehicles is growing in Alaska, but a pause on federal funding for the chargers that power them could hold up key infrastructure projects.

The city’s only ambulance service ended its contract with the city last month.

Nobody was hurt, but the highway has been blocked from both sides for most of the day.

The long-awaited road analysis examining the route used by trucks carrying gold ore from Tetlin to Fairbanks has been released by Kinney Engineering, the research firm contracted by the state Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. The study reports on the 247 miles of the Alaska, Richardson and Steese Highways between the mine and the Kinross gold mill.