Fairbanks last hosted the games in 2014.

Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about Alaska's slow wildfire season, and how some other regions of the far north are experiencing much more active conditions.

The Alaska Division of Elections is sending follow-up letters to most of the 3,000 voters it removed from the state's active-voter list advising them how they may be able vote this year. // Alaska lost more of its federal workforce than almost all other U.S. states to sweeping Trump administration job cuts last year, a new report says. // A looming firewood shortage in the Interior has residents and businesses worried that thousands of customers will have to find new sources of dry wood before winter. // The Trump Administration is again threatening cuts to the federal Essential Air Service program, which provides funding for flights to and from rural Alaska. // Alaska Public Media’s Eric Stone talks with former health and revenue commissioner Adam Crum in today’s installment of interviews with this year's top gubernatorial candidates.

The University of Alaska is eliminating out-of-state tuition rates. // Alaska Public Media’s series of interviews with candidates for governor continues with Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins. // A North Pole woman was sentenced to 21 years in prison Wednesday for selling drugs that resulted in a man’s fatal fentanyl overdose. // An Azul Airlines plane briefly blocked the main runway at Fairbanks International Airport Wednesday. // Sen. Lisa Murkowski refuses to comment on how she’ll vote on the confirmation of Todd Blanche, Trump’s pick for attorney general.

Alaska District Court Judge Aaron Peterson handed down the sentence to 39-year-old Samantha Pearson Wednesday. She was accused of selling the drugs that led to death of 32-year-old Adam Sakkinen, also of North Pole, about four years ago.

Thousands of households rely on the company’s wood to keep warm through the Interior’s brutal winters.

A workplace-safety agency has begun an investigation into an accident that killed two people last week who were working on a septic project in Delta Junction. // A top City of Fairbanks official says he wants to stall certain public records requests submitted by Outside YouTubers. // A series of Alaska Public Media interviews with gubernatorial hopefuls kicks off with Democratic candidate Tom Begich. // The Trump administration wants to loosen offshore Arctic drilling rules that were put in place during the Obama administration. // Two dance groups — one from rural Alaska, and one from Chicago — met in Nome last week in an effort to blend contemporary and Alaska Native dance styles.

City of Fairbanks Chief of Staff Mike Sanders told the City Council he'd prefer to tell Lower 48 content creators seeking police body-cam footage that they'll "get it when they get it."

A state workplace-safety agency has begun an investigation into an accident that killed two people last week who were working on a septic-system project in Delta Junction.

The Northwest Arctic community of Ambler has been without drinking water and sewer for five months. // The Alaska Supreme Court has decided that Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg can stay in the race for U.S. Senate. So, what exactly are his policy priorities?