Patrick Gilchrist

The Alaska Bureau of Investigation has identified two Alaska State Trooper recruits who shot and killed a Fairbanks man after he allegedly charged an officer with a knife. // The federal government last week gave up its claim to ownership of the North Fork of the Fortymile River in Alaska’s eastern Interior. // The University of Alaska Fairbanks’s intends to sell one of two buildings at its Bristol Bay Campus. // Alaska will get $272 million dollars from the federal government this year to upgrade its rural health system. // Flu cases are spiking in Alaska, like in the rest of the United States and abroad.

Jeff Barber, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiff, says, in his opinion, the state’s attempt to undo the agreement is “outrageous.”

-The United States may soon have an Arctic ambassador again to represent the nation’s interests in the far north.-Gov. Mike Dunleavy is eyeing a property tax break for the long-planned Alaska LNG project.-Republicans in the House delivered a rare rebuke of Trump when they passed a bill to restore union rights for federal employees, but Alaska’s congressman wasn’t among them.

The adoption of the 2026 spending plan followed a couple hours of council members offering final amendments at Monday’s meeting, which itself came after a series of budget meetings in November. Mayor Mindy O’Neall released her proposed budget in late October.

Fairbanks police are looking for a suspect who allegedly shot and wounded a person Monday night in the Fairbanks eastside Safeway store. // The Fairbanks City Council adopted its 2026 budget on Monday. // The window for Alaska Native veterans to apply for their Native allotments will stay open for another five years. // A 37-year-old Kodiak man had a toe amputated after advocates say he was denied adequate medical care while in ICE custody.

The ordinance establishing the acknowledgement passed in a tight 4-3 vote, with new Mayor Mindy O'Neall breaking a 3-3 tie.

The council postponed the vote last month in hopes a solution could be found. That didn't happen, according to the city's chief of staff.

Members of the Fairbanks North Star Borough (FNSB) Assembly have drafted an ordinance that would rebrand a historical park in the center of the Golden Heart City. It comes amid a yearslong dispute over Pioneer Park’s name.

A Fairbanks mining firm announced that it struck a deal to merge with a company in British Columbia. // Celebrated Athabaskan fiddler Bill Stevens died in Fairbanks last month at the age of 92. // The Western Arctic Caribou Herd was once Alaska’s largest; state biologists say the herd is now at its lowest numbers in five decades. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy released his proposed budget, setting the stage for months of debate in his final legislative session as governor. // Alaska Native veterans have until Dec. 29 to claim 160 acres of federal land, a deadline Sen. Dan Sullivan says he’s trying to extend.

Between June 2020 and January 2021, the age-adjusted COVID-19 mortality rate among American Indian and Alaska Native people was 5.5 times higher than that of white people, the report says.