Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about heat advisories.

Assemblymember Tammie Wilson had introduced the idea of raising the rate as a way to put downward pressure on property taxes, which make up the majority of borough tax revenue. On Thursday, she encouraged her fellow assembly members to vote against her ordinance.

As wildfires raged, the Fairbanks North Star Borough told some neighborhoods to evacuate, but not everyone listened. Advocates say the so-called Big Beautiful Bill puts thousands of Alaskans subsidized health insurance at risk. The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly rejected an ordinance Thursday that proposed asking voters to approve a bed tax increase.

A round up of fires in the Interior. A family loses their home in the Bear Creek Fire south of Healy. A meeting tonight will give the Healy community an update on the Bear Creek Fire. A meeting tonight in Fairbanks will showcase volunteer opportunities to help with emergencies.

The final budget also provides $125,000 to the nonprofit that's preparing a lawsuit against the state for what the organization's leaders say is a failure to fund education adequately.

Officials still don’t know how many structures have been lost, but the Bear Creek Fire near Healy has burned several homes and outbuildings.

The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District board passed a budget for the coming year Tuesday that relies on state lawmakers to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto. // Cold, wet weather has slowed the wildfires that've been raging in the Interior since late last week. But fires threatening areas around the Interior are nowhere near extinguished. // A new law that goes into effect next week boosts Alaska's minimum wage and requires paid sick leave. But many business leaders don’t know the law's rules. // A Talkeetna man who was driving his ATV on a stretch of railroad track Monday was killed when he was struck by a northbound freight train near Montana Creek.

Some homes and other structures have burned, but it is not clear yet how many.

State officials are hopeful that the arrival of federal crews will bolster Interior firefighting efforts. Fairbanks area school board grapples with state education funding veto as they prepare to adopt their budget. Watchdog report finds gap in regulators' oversight of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.

Two big Interior fires (one ten times the size of the other) cause road closures on important highways to Denali Park and Anchorage on the south and Prudhoe Bay and the Arctic on the north side of town.