Fire investigators have found human remains in a house on McCarthy Road that burned down on Christmas Day. // An Alaska scientist participating in a major conference in New Orleans expressed alarm over the impact of federal funding cuts on Arctic research. // Residents of the Mat-Su Borough were blasted again last weekend by hurricane-force winds. // People out on the Aleutian Island of Unalaska were getting hit with even stronger winds than those that battered the Mat-Su. // In Juneau, a winter storm dumped more than two feet of snow and freezing rain on the capital city last weekend. // The state Labor Department is offering unemployment benefits to Alaskans impacted by Typhoon Halong. // Denali National Park and Preserve officials say they’ve opened an area north of the crest of the Alaska Range to snowmachiners.

A Fairbanks man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a man last month at a solid-waste transfer site off Farmers Loop Road. // State fire investigators are looking into the cause of a Christmas Day fire that destroyed a home south of Copper Center. One person was injured, another is missing. // Next year’s legislative session begins in less than a month, and lawmakers already have big plans for the year ahead. // The $900 billion defense-policy bill signed into law earlier this month includes special benefits for Alaska-based soldiers and Coast Guard members. // President Trump signed a bill into law on Friday that will give Alaska Native veterans more time to file for their Native allotments. // Nine seismic-monitoring stations in the Aleutian Islands lost federal funding this year and were set to shut down. But last-minute negotiations could keep them operating.