Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about Alaska's cool first half of 2026.

Alaska State Troopers say a North Slope Borough Police officer fatally shot an Utqiagvik (OOK-kee-ah-vik) man Wednesday. // The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly passed a measure Thursday that guarantees the Carlson Center will remain the home ice of the UAF hockey team. // Hundreds of seismic stations across that Alaska detect earthquakes may soon be used to also identify landslides. // The U.S. Coast Guard tracked Chinese vessels traveling through a section of international waters in the Bering Sea earlier this month for the first time this year. // Alaska’s main Native healthcare organization is set to receive a $400 million settlement from the federal government for unpaid medical services expenses. // Eielson Air Force Base officials say they’re expecting around 10,000 people to show up next weekend during the Arctic Lightning Air Show and Open House.

Alaska Airlines canceled 10 flights statewide Wednesday because of ash drifting over the state from an erupting volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.

“Six years ago, if you would have told me I'd be doing this, I’d think you were insane,” said one Toolik worker. “But this has probably been one of the coolest turns in my life that I didn't know I needed.”

Alaska Airlines canceled 10 flights statewide Wednesday because of volcanic ash drifting over the state. // The Alaska Division of Elections has moved thousands of registered voters to its “inactive” list, due to suspicion that they are not citizens. // Fairbanks Police have learned the identity of a bicyclist involved in a fatal collision last weekend. But they're not revealing the suspect's name. // The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has announced an emergency permit hunt for Alaskans to harvest muskoxen stranded on an island in the Bering Sea. // KUAC's Patrick Gilchrist recaps the 65th annual World Eskimo-Indian Olympics with Fairbanks Daily News-Miner sports reporter Drew Blouin // Support staff at the remote Toolik Field Station work behind the scenes to keep the research facility 400 miles north of Fairbanks running smoothly.

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner sports reporter Drew Blouin talks highlights from 65th annual WEIO.

The father of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice died the day after she spoke at a Fairbanks event, and a Utah forestry professor teaches Alaskans how scorched sticks can nurture their gardens.

Johnny Brown, whom Jackson credits with her early interest in law, died July 15, according to an obituary published in the Miami Herald.

The nation’s top court will hear a Fairbanks pilot’s years-old case after the state of Alaska seized his plane as part of a bootlegging conviction. // Fairbanks police say a teenage motorcyclist died over the weekend after colliding with a man on a bicycle who was crossing the road illegally. // Calls to ban trawling or end bycatch in the pollock fishery off Alaska’s shores are reaching a fever-pitch this election season.

Evidence and witness statements indicate Aiden Cowles, 19 and the driver of the motorcycle, was following road rules and wearing protective gear, according to Fairbanks Police Department.