An Alaska fire incident management team is in the Lower 48 to oversee one of the nation's highest-priority wildfires as fire activity intensifies in the West. // The Department of Public Safety has identified the Alaska State Trooper who, the department says, fatally shot a man in Fairbanks last week after a short car chase. // Seven flight service stations across Alaska have been closed after the Federal Aviation Administration placed stations’ employees on administrative leave. // A residential fire in South Fairbanks last month has resulted in the death of one person, according to the City of Fairbanks Fire Department. // State investigators have accused 15 Alaskans and businesses of filing more than $1.8 million in fraudulent Medicaid claims in five separate cases.

The deployment comes during an unusually quiet Alaska fire season, allowing crews to head south to help contain the devastating Aspen Acres Fire.

Dan Bross talks to Rick Thoman about a recent funnel cloud, or possibly tornado, sighting in the Interior and the relative rarity of the occurrence in Alaska.

A measure to repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting will be on the ballot again this November. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bill Thursday that would've reimposed limits on state-election campaign contributions. // The ex-chief of a Delta Junction-area volunteer fire department was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison for stealing $440,000 dollars from the organization. //An false AI-generated story of a beluga whale escaping Seward's Alaska SeaLife Center got millions of views on social media last month.

Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Patricia Haines sentenced 63-year-old Michael Paschall to three years with one suspended and 10 years probation during a sentencing hearing Thursday at Rabinowitz Courthouse.

Fairbanks officials read the Declaration of Independence aloud in sync with numerous communities across the United States, and the remains of an unidentified WWII soldier are headed to a forensics lab for possible identification.

They’re trying to figure out whether climate change is making swimmer’s itch more common in the places where many locals spend their summer afternoons.

Preliminary work on Interior Alaska’s new veterans cemetery began early last month, after years of effort to locate land and obtain funding for a state cemetery in the Interior. But the project is now officially underway, since a groundbreaking ceremony was held at the site in Salcha on June 20.

Interior Alaska’s new veterans cemetery is under construction, and Fairbanks scientists are tracking a parasite that lives in local swimming holes and triggers an itchy rash.

The incident marks the second fatal shooting involving an Alaska State Trooper in Fairbanks in 10 days.