Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about Fairbanks' trend of more October rain.

6:30/8:30Former Anchorage mayor and Republican candidate for Alaska governor Dave Bronson says his experience leading the state's largest city puts him ahead of his rivals.// The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new director visited Alaska this week to learn about the state's high tuberculosis rates. // The rising cost of crafting and delivering traditional Alaska Native garments to customers has made it hard for the artisans to make a profit. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy has ordered an investigation into an effort by the Mary Peltola campaign to recruit a same-name challenger to Sen. Dan Sullivan. // The New York Times reporter who broke the story on the same-name challenger says Peltola’s ex-campaign manager was a major source.

The New York Times published a story Wednesday that revealed Democratic operatives secretly recruited a second candidate named Dan Sullivan to act as a spoiler in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race. // The Alaska Beacon reports that in the week leading up to Election Day, nearly 10% of the state's registered voters had turned out and voted early. // The National Weather Service predicts that some remnants of a typhoon will bring high winds and high-elevation snowfall into the eastern Interior on Friday. // In western Alaska, the remnants of Typhoon Champi are expected to move through the southern Bering Sea before reaching the Bristol Bay region early Saturday morning.

The state of Alaska is asking a judge to dismiss a federal lawsuit that would block election results if U.S. Sen. Dan narrowly loses to Mary Peltola. // Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski made a surprise endorsement Tuesday in the Alaska governor’s race: Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins // A new organization is working to bring the practice of allowing people to die with medical assistance to Alaska. // Polling places in some rural Alaska communities have failed to fully open to voters, more than a week after early voting. // A lawsuit filed last week argues that a planned transfer of state land in the Mat-Su to Alaska's economic development agency is unconstitutional.

The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the air traffic control tower in Fairbanks at night, and Iditarod organizers are honoring the pilots that help make the race possible.

The Federal Aviation Administration says the closure is temporary and that planes can still land and take off. But low visibility conditions can make that more complicated.

Research rockets took off north of Fairbanks to study space dust and dying stars, and candidates for governor pitched their ideas for addressing Indigenous issues at the Alaska Native Federation convention.

One launch looked at a nebula left behind by a dying star. The other recreated the conditions that turn vapor into tiny grains of dust.

Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about Tropical storm intensity.

The Alaska Federation of Natives kicked off its annual convention in Anchorage Thursday. // Sen. Lisa Murkowski told the AFN convention that high energy prices are this year’s crisis, just as the Halong storm disaster was last year’s. // A Chinook salmon run in Kodiak has become the first test case to determine whether hatcheries can play a part in saving wild salmon. // A photographer, filmmaker and educator from the Y-K Delta has been honored at the Alaska Federation of Natives. // The Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition is hosting an event on Saturday to provide information on how to reduce electricity usage. // Delta Junction has a new community newspaper called The Buffalo Times. The weekly fills a void left when the Delta Wind abruptly shut down in July.