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Patrick Gilchrist/KUACAn 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.
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NewsFairbanks 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. -
NewsFairbanks 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. -
NewsThey’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. -
NewsInterior 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. -
NewsThe incident marks the second fatal shooting involving an Alaska State Trooper in Fairbanks in 10 days. -
NewsA rare funnel cloud was spotted in a remote area south of the Denali Highway Saturday evening. // The Alaska House ethics committee says Homer Republican Rep. Sarah Vance likely violated state law when she criticized a local newspaper’s coverage of a Charlie Kirk memorial. // President Trump has pardoned a diesel mechanic from Wasilla who was convicted of removing pollution-control equipment from diesel vehicles. // Nearly twenty years ago, a California couple set out to play a game of croquet on the lawn of every state capitol. They finished that quest in Juneau last month. -
NewsMary Ellen Doty has decades of frontline medical experience, including almost 20 years in rural Alaska. In her recent memoir, “Medicine at 50 Below,” published by Nelson Bond Publishing in February, Doty shares firsthand experiences of practicing medicine in the state. -
NewsPearl Creek STEAM Charter School wants to use the vacant Pearl Creek Elementary building. -
NewsThe Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly has authorized administration to lease a vacant building to the charter school at the center of an ongoing court battle. // Alaska’s food assistance program had the highest payment error rate in the country last year. // An economist at the University of Alaska Anchorage found Alaska’s federal workforce shrank almost 16% between April 2024 and April 2026. // Some states showed out at the Great American State Fair in Washington D.C. But Alaska’s booth is underwhelming.
