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Alaska State Troopers say a North Slope Borough Police officer fatally shot an Utqiagvik (OOK-kee-ah-vik) man Wednesday. // The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly passed a measure Thursday that guarantees the Carlson Center will remain the home ice of the UAF hockey team. // Hundreds of seismic stations across that Alaska detect earthquakes may soon be used to also identify landslides. // The U.S. Coast Guard tracked Chinese vessels traveling through a section of international waters in the Bering Sea earlier this month for the first time this year. // Alaska’s main Native healthcare organization is set to receive a $400 million settlement from the federal government for unpaid medical services expenses. // Eielson Air Force Base officials say they’re expecting around 10,000 people to show up next weekend during the Arctic Lightning Air Show and Open House. -
National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationAlaska Airlines canceled 10 flights statewide Wednesday because of ash drifting over the state from an erupting volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
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NewsThe father of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice died the day after she spoke at a Fairbanks event, and a Utah forestry professor teaches Alaskans how scorched sticks can nurture their gardens. -
NewsJohnny Brown, whom Jackson credits with her early interest in law, died July 15, according to an obituary published in the Miami Herald. -
NewsThe nation’s top court will hear a Fairbanks pilot’s years-old case after the state of Alaska seized his plane as part of a bootlegging conviction. // Fairbanks police say a teenage motorcyclist died over the weekend after colliding with a man on a bicycle who was crossing the road illegally. // Calls to ban trawling or end bycatch in the pollock fishery off Alaska’s shores are reaching a fever-pitch this election season. -
NewsPolice: Teenage motorcyclist dies after collision with man illegally crossing Fairbanks road on bikeEvidence and witness statements indicate Aiden Cowles, 19 and the driver of the motorcycle, was following road rules and wearing protective gear, according to Fairbanks Police Department. -
NewsChristopher Popps, 54, faces charges of second-degree murder in the death of Patrick Orville Dearth, who was 34 when he went missing in 1993. -
NewsThe state of Alaska seized Ken Jouppi's Cessna 206 after he was convicted of bootlegging for ignoring a six-pack of beer loaded onto a flight headed to the dry village of Beaver in 2012. -
NewsA Michigan man has been jailed on murder charges more than 30 years after he allegedly shot a coworker in Fairbanks. // The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly and school board met in a joint work session last week to discuss the borough’s cap on school district savings. // The lead Democrat in the race for Alaska’s U.S. House seat is suspending his campaign. An application for a gold mining exploration project near the Tanana River and Delta Junction is taking its final steps. // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is waiving federal Clean Air Act restrictions on using high-sulfur diesel on the North Slope. -
NewsThe drilling project would take place near Delta Junction and the Tanana River. -
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about the extreme climate of the Yukon Flats. -
NewsA major supplier of firewood in Fairbanks says it will wind down its kiln-dried firewood operation by the end of the year. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy called lawmakers back for a third special session on Thursday. // U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained a state of Alaska lawyer who is originally from China, according to ICE officials. // It's likely that Alaska – and the rest of the globe – will see a very strong El Niño climate pattern this fall and winter. // The latest campaign finance data in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race show Democrat Mary Peltola has vastly outraised incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan. // The state is appealing a federal judge’s decision to award $1.8 million in attorney fees to several Native organizations in a lawsuit over subsistence fishing rights.
