The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly adopted a budget Thursday for the upcoming fiscal year. // The Alaska Legislature is headed for a special session focused on tax cuts for the Alaska LNG project immediately after lawmakers adjourn. // The Fairbanks City Council approved an ordinance Monday that gives city officials more power when clearing out illegal campsites. // A jury last week found a woman guilty of murdering her young son inside her Fairbanks apartment in October 2024.

The Alaska House is racing to pass a bill offering tax relief for the Alaska LNG project before the regular legislative session ends. // A North Pole man died Saturday of injuries he sustained in a motorcycle wreck in Salcha. // Smokejumpers are working to control two small fires in the Yukon Training Area near Eielson Air Force Base. // The developer of a proposed natural gas pipeline took two busloads of officials on a tour of a Kenai Peninsula export terminal. // A Canadian company seeking to reopen a British Columbia gold mine plans to pilot a large boat up Alaska’s Taku River to get there. That worries area residents.

The Alaska Legislature wants the state’s development agency to finance multifamily housing, and a national organization honors a group that works to bring attention to Alaska’s missing and murdered Indigenous people.

Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about Greenup and how the leaf out process has long been tracked in Fairbanks.

In a historic vote, the Alaska Legislature on Thursday rejected Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s pick for attorney general. // Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted for the first time with Democrats Tuesday to advance a measure to remove U.S. forces from Iran. // Warm weather is ahead for the Interior this weekend. // Production of the first "sell-able" oil from the North Slope’s new Pikka Project will hit the market soon. // A quiet volcano on the Alaska Peninsula is showing signs of unrest, according to scientists at the UAF-based Alaska Volcano Observatory. //Fairbanks National Weather Service meteorologists in have declared that greenup has officially begun.

Dan Bross talks to National Weather Service hydrologist Heather Best about breakup along the Middle Yukon River.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted against the war in Iran Wednesday for the first time since the conflict began. // State lawmakers have passed a resolution supporting Alaska Native Corporations’ participation in a federal contracting program the Trump administration opposes. // Federal firefighters have begun burning vegetation in military training areas around the Interior. // The Alaska House has passed legislation that would enable school districts to count their students accurately to get education funding. //The number of farmers in Alaska is growing, while the number of younger producers remains flat. A few farmers are working to change. // As lawmakers spar over issues in the Legislature’s regular session, one unusual proposal is bringing them together.

A state disaster declaration is in effect for some Interior communities impacted by ice jam flooding, and a few Alaska farmers are determined to recruit the next generation.

The declaration covers areas near Chalkyitsik on the Black River and Hughes on the Koyukuk River, which were struck by rapidly rising water over the last week.