Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about the impact volcanic eruptions can have on weather and climate.

Mt. Spurr is teetering toward a possible eruption nearly 300 miles south of Fairbanks. Despite that distance, officials at Alaska’s second busiest airport are keeping a close eye on the developing situation.

Fairbanks International Airport officials are keeping a close eye on the imminent eruption of Mt. Spurr. Three Bears Alaska will soon unveil its latest retail outlet in the state — a grocery store and gas station in Delta Junction. Last weekend’s T-Dog sled dog race brought 39 mushers from across the country to Fairbanks.

Monitors spotted 35,000 acres of spruce beetle activity in 2024. The current outbreak peaked in 2018 at nearly 600,000 acres.

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The budget for Fairbanks-area schools is now passed to the Borough Assembly after an arduous week of budget-cutting in hours-long meetings. School board members have been anticipating huge cuts since last fall, when they started to work on a $16 million deficit.

The agreement means the case will not go to a jury for trial, which was scheduled for this December.

A 16-year-old snowmachiner died Saturday after he was caught in an avalanche in Turnagain Pass, in SouthCentral Alaska.Two injured climbers were rescued Sunday from a site high up on the slope of a mountain in the eastern Alaska Range west of Black Rapids. Three people were rescued Monday morning after their small plane went through the ice near the east side of Tustumena Lake, on the Kenai Peninsula.The plan to clean up polluting particulates in the air in Interior Alaska gets another comment period.People living in the northern part of the state will have a chance to watch rockets soar through aurora-lit night skies for the next couple weeks.

The Environmental Protection Agency said in early February that it would allow for additional comment because of feedback about a new home energy audit requirement. Now, that second public comment period has begun.