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Photo by Shelby Herbert/Alaska Public Media'Struggling to find their image,' Yukon Quest Alaska to run longest race since splitting with CanadaThe decision marks a couple of firsts for the competition: both new mileage, as well as a new, looped version of the trail. -
Oil-industry leaders say a renaissance is underway on the North Slope. // The Alaska Legislature last week took a step towards suing Gov. Mike Dunleavy over an executive order he issued last month. // U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan joined fellow Senate Republicans last week to defeat a measure that would've required the release of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. // Alaskans can expect a La Niña climate pattern that could mean it’ll be a cooler-than-average winter. // Mushers will travel 750 miles this coming February in the 2026 Yukon Quest Alaska sled-dog race on a new route that will begin and end in Fairbanks.
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NewsThe Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly passed an ordinance Thursday authorizing the mayor to accept the 309 donated acres from the Interior Alaska Land Trust. -
AgricultureA Delta Junction-area farmer has sold nearly 5,600 acres to a Nevada-based agricultural entrepreneur for about $6 million. The state Farm Bureau president says he believes it’s the biggest farm sale in Alaska history. -
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about why few typhoons and hurricanes have developed and sustained in 2 large areas of the Tropics so far this year. -
NewsThousands of acres near Delta Junction have changed hands in what the Alaska Farm Bureau president says it's the biggest farm sale in Alaska history. The founder of an influential, conservative Alaska blog says she resigned her this week due to a dispute with the site's owner. -
NewsDan Bross reported for KUAC for over two decades, before retiring last year. Lawmakers from last year’s legislative session signed a proclamation recognizing Bross for his many years of reporting throughout the Interior. -
NewsAntimony reclamation operations started at the Mohawk property after an “exclusive VIP site visit” on Monday, the company says. Industry leaders, local and state elected officials and their staff, as well as staff for Alaska’s congressional delegation were among those invited. U.S. Antimony planned for about two dozen to make it to the tour. -
NewsA Dallas-based mining company says it has started work to recover a critical mineral from historic mining deposits at a site near Fairbanks. The Bering Sea Land Bridge National Preserve has renovated its center in Nome. An Alaska state representative presented a longtime Fairbanks and KUAC reporter with an award from the state legislature on Wednesday. The top oil-producing company in Alaska announced last week that it's planning significant layoffs. -
NewsUAF is on track to become a top-tier research institution by 2030, a scientist studying salmon decline in Canada is coming to Fairbanks to talk about her findings, and a man in Ketchikan is keeping a nautical musical tradition alive. -
NewsThe vote was unanimous, as Councilmember Sue Sprinkle, who introduced the measure, joined the rest of the council in rejecting it. -
The state Department of Transportation has imposed weight limits on two old bridges on the Richardson and Parks highways to protect them from damage by heavy trucks. // A candidate for the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Board of Education is suing her former employer over claims of discrimination. // The University of Alaska Board of Regents has introduced changes to its antidiscrimination policy to protect federal funding from cuts by the Trump administration. // The Alaska Division of Elections has identified 70 possible noncitizens who voted or attempted to vote in Alaska since 2015.
