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Gubernatorial candidate Dave Bronson has picked a Fairbanks man who’s a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and financial adviser to join his ticket. // Health care workers and others are meeting in Anchorage this week for the kickoff of a 5-year, $1.3 billion program to overhaul medical care in rural Alaska. // Fairbanks Native Association is holding a mental health resource fair this weekend intended to help locals stave off the winter blues. // The North Slope village of Anaktuvuk Pass has been short on fuel for about a week, and residents are trying to stay warm in frigid temperatures. // The Alaska Court of Appeals Thursday took up the case of a woman from Whittier who was indicted in 2023 on felony charges of voter misconduct -
Patrick Gilchrist/KUACFormer Anchorage Mayor and gubernatorial candidate Dave Bronson announced Joshua Church as his choice for lieutenant governor Wednesday.
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NewsThe northernmost subpopulation of grizzlies is made up of only a few hundred bears, spread out over a large, food-scarce expanse. -
NewsThe incentives wouldn’t be a novel way of trying to buoy the local housing market, but the proposal does tweak some elements of a previous borough program. -
Democrat Mary Peltola announced Monday she’s running for U.S. Senate, taking on Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan. // The U.S. Supreme Court has again declined to take up challenges to a federal law that protects subsistence hunting and fishing in Alaska. // Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Grier Hopkins is proposing property tax exemptions for new residential construction // The holidays have wrapped up for most of us. But for followers of Russian Orthodox tradition in Alaska, Christmas has just arrived. // Researchers are strapping cameras on to grizzly bears that live above the Arctic Circle to better understand their lives out on the frigid tundra. -
NewsA Saturday night crash on the Parks Highway near Nenana injured six people. // With the state legislative session just over a week away, here’s a look at some bills lawmakers are proposing. // Alaska’s junior U.S. senator talks new legislation, the Alaska gasline project and the U.S. intervention in Venezuela. // Two Soldotna-based Alaska State Troopers pleaded not guilty in federal court in Anchorage late last week to one count each of violating a Kenai man’s civil rights. -
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about what's enabled a long run of consistently colder than normal temperatures and whether it's linked to climate change. -
A medical office in Fairbanks is closing its doors as the owner faces charges of felony child sex abuse, and Canada's Yukon Quest sled dog race will not run this year. -
NewsA letter addressed to patients says Alcan Medical Group will permanently close at the end of January due to “unforeseen circumstances.” It does not mention the criminal charges. -
NewsThe Alaska race is still on track to run its longest route since the Quest split in 2022. And its board president is hoping for reunification. -
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. -
