Patrick Gilchrist

According to alerts the university sent out Tuesday afternoon, the Gruening Building will remain closed Wednesday and is expected to reopen Thursday.

Flooding from a sprinkler line break closed a building at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Tuesday, leading faculty and administrators to relocate some final exams. // Legendary Alaska adventurer Dick Griffith passed away earlier this month at the age of 98. // The federal government’s official name for North America’s tallest peak is Mount McKinley, but Alaska’s senior senator argues it shouldn’t be. // A program that helps boaters use buoys to track weather conditions wrapped another successful season this fall. // Last week, some music apps gave users their top songs, artists and genres of the year, so what were some Alaska lawmakers listening to this year?

The grant is worth a little more than $3.1 million and comes from a program meant to help state and local governments purchase or lease zero- or low-emissions transit vehicles.

The Fairbanks North Star Borough got another federal grant to support its public transit system’s ongoing shift to using vehicles that run on compressed natural gas. // The Alaska State Troopers are returning to television with a new show set to air in January. // After more than a century, a Lingít clan will once again be the legal owners of a Raven helmet worn during the Battle of Sitka in 1804.

Cold air has been parked over the eastern Interior for the past few days, and it’s set to stick around for a few more. // New data shows teacher and principal turnover rates in Alaska have increased overall, beyond levels preceding the COVID-19 pandemic. // The state launched a new telehealth service for Alaskans with intellectual and developmental disabilities. // The University of Alaska will host listening sessions in Fairbanks this week as it ramps up its search for a new president. // Nome’s only overnight shelter is slated to have its longest season ever.

Golden Valley Electric Association announced a quarterly rate hike this week. Disaster response to Typhoon Halong has raised questions about using artificial intelligence for translation and its implications for tribal data sovereignty. A Fairbanks-based mining company is leasing land in a national park in Southcentral Alaska from a Native corporation. The Chilkat Valley is home to one of the world’s largest gatherings of bald eagles, and this year, the highest number of raptors were recorded in more than two decades.

The victim has been transported to the state Medical Examiner’s Office for autopsy and confirmation of identification.

The soon-to-be defunct regulation would’ve required homeowners in much of Interior Alaska’s urban core to pay for an audit of their home’s heating system and energy efficiency before they could sell. It also would’ve required owners selling any building in the area to register wood-fired heating devices, the predominant source of air pollution around Fairbanks, with Alaska’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).