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  • Dan Bross
    Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about our unusually warm and dry August weather.
  • Money is pouring into Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, and it’s not just for the real candidates. // Alaska Public Media’s series of interviews on this year’s gubernatorial candidates features a familiar voice: Bill Walker, who's running again after serving from 2014-2018. // Juneau residents in the glacial outburst flood zone celebrated Thursday as the Mendenhall River crested at a level well below flood stage. // A wildland firefighter from the Northwest Arctic community of Noorvik died Tuesday while fighting a wildfire in Minnesota. // Federal game managers have announced that they’ve temporarily delayed the opening for a part of a popular subsistence caribou hunt in the eastern Interior.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Thousands of households rely on the company’s wood to keep warm through the Interior’s brutal winters.
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    A workplace-safety agency has begun an investigation into an accident that killed two people last week who were working on a septic project in Delta Junction. // A top City of Fairbanks official says he wants to stall certain public records requests submitted by Outside YouTubers. // A series of Alaska Public Media interviews with gubernatorial hopefuls kicks off with Democratic candidate Tom Begich. // The Trump administration wants to loosen offshore Arctic drilling rules that were put in place during the Obama administration. // Two dance groups — one from rural Alaska, and one from Chicago — met in Nome last week in an effort to blend contemporary and Alaska Native dance styles.