Patrick Gilchrist

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).

Troopers are investigating whether a missing Valdez woman might have been staying at the Caribou Hotel in Glennallen when it burned down in mid-November. // The Fairbanks City Council again will take up a measure that calls for reading a land acknowledgement aloud at the beginning of its meetings. // An energy consulting firm says several changes to state law may be needed to boost the outlook of the Alaska gasline project. // Republicans in Alaska’s Senate voted over the weekend to confirm two appointees to fill vacancies in the state legislature’s upper chamber. // For the first time, Juneau’s famous Mendenhall Glacier is not touching Mendenhall Lake. // Last week marked the 10-year anniversary of an international agreement that sought to give Alaskans a say in the development of mines upstream of Southeast Alaska.

Since early 2024, a conformity freeze has limited how local and state planners could direct federal funds for certain transportation projects in the area.

The possible ramifications of the dispute arose at a Fairbanks City Council meeting on Monday, as the council considered a doomed letter of agreement that the firefighters union had already voted down.

State law enforcement officials are looking into four recent crimes involving firearms, with suspects yet to be identified in two of the cases as of Monday afternoon. Officials say there is currently no evidence suggesting the crimes are related.

Brooklyn Whitman, 27, is accused of shooting and killing 34-year-old Ashlee Spann, of Fairbanks, at an apartment on Vassar Circle, near Chena Pump Road.