1. Alaska State Troopers say traffic on the Parks Highway was delayed for 10 hours Wednesday when a semi tractor-trailer crashed into a bridge in Cantwell.2. Kinross Alaska has donated a million dollars to establish a charitable fund for grants to help organizations in Upper Tanana Valley communities.3. Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s foundation has donated $18 million to Alaska Pacific University.4. Great egrets landed early last month in Unalaska for the first time in recorded history. Biologists suspect Typhoon Halong brought the big birds in.5. A team of scientists has been studying areas around Nome to determine whether beavers are contributing to climate change.

Fairbanksans have been dealing with dead car batteries, uncollected trash, and other cold weather problems during the month-long freeze — but warmer weather is ahead.

An online public notice says the transportation department is working on conceptual designs, engineering and environmental studies. The notice, which was posted on New Year’s Eve, also says the department is soliciting feedback on the project. The public comment period closes on Wednesday.

Here’s how Alaska’s congressional delegation reacted to the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. // The Alaska Department of Transportation plans to start construction this summer on a bridge replacement project north of Healy. // Alaska state health officials continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns — despite a recent, controversial change in federal guidance. // The City of Bethel has agreed to pay a combined settlement of $10 million to two people accusing Bethel police officers of using excessive force.

The Alaska Bureau of Investigation has identified two Alaska State Trooper recruits who shot and killed a Fairbanks man after he allegedly charged an officer with a knife. // The federal government last week gave up its claim to ownership of the North Fork of the Fortymile River in Alaska’s eastern Interior. // The University of Alaska Fairbanks’s intends to sell one of two buildings at its Bristol Bay Campus. // Alaska will get $272 million dollars from the federal government this year to upgrade its rural health system. // Flu cases are spiking in Alaska, like in the rest of the United States and abroad.

Dan Bross and Rick Thoman look back at 2025 Central Interior weather and climate highlights.

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.

Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about the Interior's consistently cold December.