The Fairbanks North Star Borough has launched a survey for residents to weigh in on the future of Joy Community Center. // An advocacy organization is suing the state for allegedly failing to provide food and necessities for older foster youth in their care. // Lawmakers return to the Alaska State Capitol today. And as always, they’ve got a long agenda to tackle. // A look at the race between Dan Sullivan and Mary Peltola for U.S. Senate.

In the brief window before the rollback, the Fairbanks Native Association said the terminations would impact many of its behavioral health programs.

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

Former Anchorage Mayor and gubernatorial candidate Dave Bronson announced Joshua Church as his choice for lieutenant governor Wednesday.

A truck loaded with explosives slid off the Alaska Highway Tuesday night, but Troopers say the cargo didn’t detonate. // Sen. Lisa Murkowski was among a bipartisan group of senators that met with the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland on Wednesday. // Donlin Gold and Glenfarne, the company leading development of the Alaska gasline project, announced a nonbinding agreement last week. // A Juneau-born athlete is headed to Italy next month to represent Team USA’s biathlon team in the 2026 Olympic Winter Games. // Southeast Alaska's largest tribe has earned nearly $40 million from U.S. Navy contracts in Guantanamo Bay. Some tribal members are concerned that money comes from supporting immigrant detention.

Jessie Holmes claimed first place in the 2026 Copper Basin 300 Monday in Glennallen.

First responders rescued two snowmachiners who became stranded near Summit Lake last night, and Jessie Holmes is the winner of this year's Copper Basin 300.

The northernmost subpopulation of grizzlies is made up of only a few hundred bears, spread out over a large, food-scarce expanse.

The 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.