If approved, one ballot measure would change the date of the borough election, which now happens the first Tuesday in October each year. It would move to the same day as the state and federal elections in November, the Tuesday after the first Monday in that month, if voters approve Proposition 2. The other measure, Proposition 3, would introduce a hand count-only method for tallying votes in borough elections and ban the use of machine tabulators for producing or certifying official counts.

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, Congressman Nick Begich and three Republican gubernatorial candidates aren’t contributing information to a voter guide being compiled by Alaska’s major news organizations. // Alaska Public Media's interviews with leading gubernatorial candidates continues with Republican Shelley Hughes, a longtime legislator from the Mat-Su. // A New York-based child welfare advocacy group has dropped a 4-year-old lawsuit that alleged misconduct in Alaska’s foster care system. // It's official: Fairbanks has been chosen to host the 2028 Arctic Winter Games.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Saturday in voting against Todd Blanche, President Trump’s attorney general nominee. // Former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson talked about his run for governor with Alaska Public Media state government reporter Eric Stone. // The Arctic Winter Games International Committee has chosen Fairbanks to host the games in 2028. // A New York-based child welfare advocacy group has dropped a 4-year-old lawsuit that alleged misconduct in Alaska’s foster care system. // Thousands of dipnetters from across the state flock to fill their freezers every year with salmon. A University of Alaska economist wonders whether it's worth all the work and expense.

Fairbanks last hosted the games in 2014.

Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about Alaska's slow wildfire season, and how some other regions of the far north are experiencing much more active conditions.

The Alaska Division of Elections is sending follow-up letters to most of the 3,000 voters it removed from the state's active-voter list advising them how they may be able vote this year. // Alaska lost more of its federal workforce than almost all other U.S. states to sweeping Trump administration job cuts last year, a new report says. // A looming firewood shortage in the Interior has residents and businesses worried that thousands of customers will have to find new sources of dry wood before winter. // The Trump Administration is again threatening cuts to the federal Essential Air Service program, which provides funding for flights to and from rural Alaska. // Alaska Public Media’s Eric Stone talks with former health and revenue commissioner Adam Crum in today’s installment of interviews with this year's top gubernatorial candidates.

The University of Alaska is eliminating out-of-state tuition rates. // Alaska Public Media’s series of interviews with candidates for governor continues with Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins. // A North Pole woman was sentenced to 21 years in prison Wednesday for selling drugs that resulted in a man’s fatal fentanyl overdose. // An Azul Airlines plane briefly blocked the main runway at Fairbanks International Airport Wednesday. // Sen. Lisa Murkowski refuses to comment on how she’ll vote on the confirmation of Todd Blanche, Trump’s pick for attorney general.

Alaska District Court Judge Aaron Peterson handed down the sentence to 39-year-old Samantha Pearson Wednesday. She was accused of selling the drugs that led to death of 32-year-old Adam Sakkinen, also of North Pole, about four years ago.

Thousands of households rely on the company’s wood to keep warm through the Interior’s brutal winters.