Patrick Gilchrist

FNSBSD Board members met for a Q&A session with Pearl Creek charter school backers Monday, and the conversation is set to continue next week. The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to repeal the Central Yukon Resource Management Plan. The former state revenue commissioner is defending his decision to invest $50 million from the state's rainy day account in a private equity fund.

On Wednesday afternoon, a group of three election workers huddled around a couple tables stacked with ballots inside the Assembly chambers, manually counting up votes for School Board Seat C. That’s the randomly chosen race from the early voting station being cross-checked as part of the audit.

Jonathan Krejcar, 40, was charged with second-degree murder Wednesday and remanded to Fairbanks Correctional Center.

A Fairbanks man has been charged with murder after police responded to a report of a death Tuesday night. The Fairbanks North Star Borough Canvass Board began the new hand count audit Wednesday for this year's municipal election. Last month, tree tappers, chefs and scientists got together in Fairbanks to work on a flavor wheel for birch syrup. Funding for a program subsidizing rural air travel is set to continue through early November despite the ongoing government shutdown.

Incumbent David Pruhs conceded the City of Fairbanks mayoral race to Mindy O'Neall Tuesday night.

State officials have made the first known detection in Alaska of the Small Hive Beetle, an “economically significant” pest of honey bees, according to an alert published in late September.

This week, the Pentagon awarded a grant worth more than $43 million to the Alaska subsidiary of Australia-based Nova Minerals, Alaska Range Resources.

Early voting for municipal elections in the Fairbanks North Star Borough ends this evening at 7 p.m. A high-profile lawsuit challenging a key part of Alaska’s homeschool system moved ahead this week. A Fairbanks jury convicted a North Pole man Wednesday of two counts of murder for the fatal shootings of two men in January 2023. The Alaska Federation of Natives convention is less than three weeks away. Most of the staff running Alaska newspapers in Homer, Kenai-Soldotna and Juneau resigned Monday after the papers’ corporate owner forced revisions to a story due to pressure from a Republican state lawmaker. A Pennsylvania man allegedly used the stolen identities of seven Alaskans in an attempt to steal their Permanent Fund Dividends in 2022. This summer, Congress defunded public broadcasting, but this week, 14 public media stations in Alaska got some good news.

Chelsie Erickson, 33, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of felony tampering with physical evidence and one count of felony leaving the scene of an accident without rendering aid.

The Fairbanks City Council adopted an ordinance last night to change city code that determines immediate, short-term succession of the mayor. With the federal government’s outsized influence in Alaska, the impacts of a possible government shutdown could be acute here in the 49th state. Researchers at the University of Alaska Anchorage are looking for community problems to solve using artificial intelligence. Many residents in the lower Kuskokwim River community of Akiak are still relying on personal and backup generators to provide power, a week after mechanical issues halted operations at the community’s power plant. The U.S. Interior Department has reversed a Biden administration decision to give Alaska tribes legal jurisdiction over Native allotments.