The Pearl Creek charter application was rejected in a unanimous vote at a school board meeting this week. President Trump said he signed a disaster declaration for Western Alaska. A Glennallen jury has found a man guilty of multiple charges in connection with a series of assaults and a car chase in 2020. Alaskans won't receive food stamp benefits for November unless the government shutdown ends before then. Local transportation planners want your opinion about which road in the Fairbanks area deserves the title of "ugliest."

The only overnight, low-barrier warming center in Fairbanks is set to open for the winter on Thursday, but the organization operating it says they need more money to get through the season.

Did campaign spending pay off in wins this year? Not exactly. Here’s an overview.

20 candidates ran for 12 seats on the Borough Assembly and Fairbanks and North Pole city councils. They spent a total of about $300,000 during the campaign. // Alaska Congressman Nick Begich has a new challenger: Pastor Matt Schultz of First Presbyterian Church in Anchorage. // Ana Hoffman of Bethel stepped down as Co-Chair of the Alaska Federation of Natives over the weekend. // Ten women will be inducted into the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame tonight.

Snowflakes dusted their extravagant outfits and signs as temperatures dipped into the 30s.

Fairbanksans bundled up Saturday to voice their frustration with the Trump administration as part of the nationwide No Kings protest. // At least 25 communities around Alaska observed No Kings Day, including Fairbanks and also smaller towns, like Healy, Nome and Delta Junction. // Alaska Federation of Natives delegates called for an immediate emergency declaration from President Trump Saturday for communities hit by Typhoon Halong. // The Anchorage Health Department says a person who arrived in last week has been diagnosed with measles. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy visited two western Alaska villages Friday to assess the damage caused by high winds and flooding from Typhoon Halong. // Members of a panel that met Friday at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention emphasized the need for cooperation in managing subsistence use of fish and wildlife.

That means a count by human beings found that the borough-owned Dominion Voting Systems machines tabulated votes 100% accurately for the thousands of sampled ballots that were part of the audit.

The Interior Gas Utility has received its first LNG from a new North Slope haul, but the utility's top executive says it'll be awhile before the haul is in full swing. The first iteration of a new hand count audit found the Fairbanks North Star Borough's voting machine tabulators were 100% accurate. A massive airlift is underway in Western Alaska as Alaska National Guard planes and helicopters transport people from villages devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.

It’s been a week since the Interior Gas Utility received the first of four tankerloads of liquified natural gas from the North Slope. Observers called the shipments historic because it was the first time natural gas extracted and processed on the Slope was transported to market.And also because it was an important step in the utility’s transition to a sustainable source of the fuel.

That's about $2 million more than the Academic Policy Committee backing the proposed school had estimated.