Patrick Gilchrist

Alaska Airlines says it has increased checked bag fees for most customers due to volatile fuel prices and global uncertainty. // Four more aerial-refueling planes arrived at Eielson Air Force Base earlier this month. // Two University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers completed a nearly 2,000-mile journey along Alaska's western coastline by snowmachine last week. // A typically routine appointment to a Fairbanks North Star Borough commission failed to gain enough support from Assembly members last Thursday. // For one engineer in Mission Control for NASA’s historic Artemis II flight, the passion for space exploration was born in a Kenai Peninsula classroom.

The regulatory maneuver would split up North Pole and Fairbanks in future assessments by the EPA, which would have to approve any request to divide the area.

Aaron Hague, 37, is accused of killing another man and stealing his identity.

Mined metals rival Alaska seafood as top exports from the state, according to a state Department of Labor analysis. // An Alaska House committee last week inserted a roughly $3,800 Permanent Fund dividend into its latest draft of the state budget. But that figure is far from final.

Dark and starry night skies won’t disappear entirely from Fairbanks as days get longer this spring and summer.

Three of Alaska’s key shipping companies are set to hike rates as fuel prices skyrocket amid the war with Iran. // The University of Alaska Fairbanks announced its opening the Interior’s first planetarium to the public later this month. // A federal judge last week dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed against the Alaska Office of Children’s Services. // A Harvard law professor weighs in on oral arguments about birthright citizenship in the U.S. Supreme Court putting Native Americans in the spotlight. // An Alaska Public Media reporter provides some context for Mary Peltola’s campaign messaging in the race for U.S. Senate.

A look inside the community with the state’s highest rental vacancy rate shows what that data point can capture – and what it can’t.

If you think this past winter in Fairbanks felt colder than ever before, well, the National Weather Service says you’re right. // The committee proposing a charter school in Two Rivers presented its resubmitted application this week. // The Alaska House passed a bill Wednesday that would help the state capture more tax revenue from companies that sell to Alaskans online. // Arctic sea ice has been shrinking in recent decades, reaching record lows both in summer and in winter. A new study shows a continuation of the trend.