Golden Valley Electric Association announced a quarterly rate hike this week. Disaster response to Typhoon Halong has raised questions about using artificial intelligence for translation and its implications for tribal data sovereignty. A Fairbanks-based mining company is leasing land in a national park in Southcentral Alaska from a Native corporation. The Chilkat Valley is home to one of the world’s largest gatherings of bald eagles, and this year, the highest number of raptors were recorded in more than two decades.

The victim has been transported to the state Medical Examiner’s Office for autopsy and confirmation of identification.

State Department of Public Safety investigators have concluded that an elderly Valdez woman who’d been missing since early last month died in a Nov. 12 fire in Glennallen.

State investigators have concluded that a woman who’d been missing since early last month died in a hotel fire in Glennallen, and government workers are in Fairbanks to help people impacted by the ex-Typhoon Halong.

The soon-to-be defunct regulation would’ve required homeowners in much of Interior Alaska’s urban core to pay for an audit of their home’s heating system and energy efficiency before they could sell. It also would’ve required owners selling any building in the area to register wood-fired heating devices, the predominant source of air pollution around Fairbanks, with Alaska’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

The state is moving ahead on repealing a regulation that critics said would’ve complicated Fairbanks-area real estate transactions. // A union-organizing campaign is underway among ConocoPhillips workers on the North Slope. // Aleutian Airways has begun providing federally subsidized air service to three Western Alaska communities. // National mining and pro-business groups are trying to convince the federal government to again consider allowing companies to develop the Pebble mine.

Troopers are investigating whether a missing Valdez woman might have been staying at the Caribou Hotel in Glennallen when it burned down in mid-November. // The Fairbanks City Council again will take up a measure that calls for reading a land acknowledgement aloud at the beginning of its meetings. // An energy consulting firm says several changes to state law may be needed to boost the outlook of the Alaska gasline project. // Republicans in Alaska’s Senate voted over the weekend to confirm two appointees to fill vacancies in the state legislature’s upper chamber. // For the first time, Juneau’s famous Mendenhall Glacier is not touching Mendenhall Lake. // Last week marked the 10-year anniversary of an international agreement that sought to give Alaskans a say in the development of mines upstream of Southeast Alaska.

Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about Fairbanks Thanksgiving weather history.