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The Fairbanks active-duty soldier arrested and charged with murder, while out on bail earlier this month, appeared virtually from jail for a preliminary hearing Wednesday. Plus, Man found guilty of 1993 murder at UAF appeals conviction over DNA privacy.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of House Bill 69 was solidified after a joint vote of the House and Senate. In a 33-27 vote, state lawmakers rejected overriding the governor’s veto of the bill, which sought to increase the BSA (annual per-student funding) by $1,000.

An override of the governor's veto of House Bill 69 was rejected in a 33-27 vote on Tuesday. Plus, the Fairbanks assembly votes to close the Mary Siah Recreation Center during budget talks.

The death of Pope Francis on Monday is being felt by Alaskans, including leaders in the Catholic Church who met Jorge Mario Bergoglio on several occasions.

A late-night dining spot in downtown Anchorage is still standing after a vehicle crashed in the early hours of Sunday morning. Father Madison Hayes is a priest for the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau based in the Mat-Su remembers Pope Francis and shares memories of when he lived in the Vatican for four years during his studies.   

Pope Francis died early Monday morning in Rome after celebrating one final Easter, Christianity's holiest day. In 2013, Francis made history by becoming the first Jesuit pope and the first pope from the Americas.

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Protests erupt across the country, and here in Alaska, we have all the action from downtown Anchorage. Then the Supreme Court rebukes the president, and it's been 30 years since a deadly bombing in Oklahoma City. We take a look back at the devastation.

A lot of questions over the future of Alaska education funding. We are joined by Anchorage School Board President Andy Holleman. A look at how tariffs translate to Alaska budgets. And an update on the 66th Ave homicide of a well known Alaska fighting championship competitor.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy followed through on his pledge to veto a recently passed school funding bill that included a $1,000 increase to the BSA, the per-student state funding that school districts built their budgets around.

The possibility of Mount Spurr erupting in the coming months changes as the Alaska Volcano Observatory releases new info on weather hampering its ability to detect gas emissions. Plus, state lawmakers have a renewed endeavor ahead of them after Gov. Mike Dunleavy formally vetoed House Bill 69, which arrived to his desk earlier this week in a “stripped-down” form but still provided a $1...

The Alaska House of Representatives approved a $6.2 billion draft state operating budget, putting Alaska on track for a significant deficit in the fiscal year that begins July 1, according to the Alaska Beacon .

A Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District staff member testified in a Palmer Courtroom Wednesday that other students were “confused” by a transgender boy having to use the girl’s bathroom, as mandated by the district’s 2022 transgender student bathroom policy. Plus,  gusty winds are impacting much of Southcentral Alaska Wednesday through Thursday morning.

The federal government revoked the visas of four people affiliated with the University of Alaska Anchorage. UA President Pat Pitney  wrote in a letter to all university staff and students Monday that the four individuals had their visas revoked “without prior notice.”

The state Senate’s budget bill for fiscal year 2026 will soon be taken up by House lawmakers after passing the Senate on Tuesday morning. Plus, if driving on studded tires after the deadline, law enforcement may give motorists a ticket.  

Lawmakers are reviewing a bill that could turn the governor’s mansion in Juneau into a short-term rental property to generate revenue. Why do some people say it's creative, and others call it strange?

The 24-year-old soldier was out on bail for another charge when he was arrested and charged with murder in a fatal shooting on Friday. Plus, House Bill 139 is proposing to turn the governor's mansion in Juneau into a short-term rental property.

Recapping where the state education bill increasing the BSA by $1,000 now stands. Plus, in Anchorage, Georgina Fernandez looks back on the snow-challenged ski season.

A Fairbanks man is dead after a shooting at an apartment complex in the 1100 block of 27th Avenue. Then, the White House is doubling down on defying a court order requiring the Administration to provide a plan to return a Maryland man from an El Salvadorian prison, as President Trump works to clarify his new tariff policy. Closer to home, family and friends are raising funds to help locate a famil...

President Trump signs a new executive order handing portions of the southern border to the Pentagon. Some products are being exempted from the tariffs, and mortgage ratings climb to their highest percentage since February. Closer to home, Anchorage celebrates its first responders, and National Poetry Month is celebrated in Spenard. Then, as the spring travel season gets ready to kick off, experts...

Students statewide took part in walkouts on Friday in support of increasing education funding. Plus, after five days of deliberation, a mistrial was declared in the case involving a man who was behind the wheel of a truck that plunged hundreds of feet down a cliff near the community of Unalaska in 2019, killing two teen girls.

As markets dip - again - President Trump expresses confidence and optimism over his tariffs. And in Alaska, could the education debate among state lawmakers trigger a veto showdown with the governor?

As jury deliberations carried into a fourth day in the case of a 2019 deadly Unalaska truck crash, family members of the two teens killed shared their memories with Alaska’s News Source. Plus, a woman died after being hospitalized in a shooting near Davis Park in Anchorage’s Mountain View neighborhood Thursday morning.

A jury has asked to review additional evidence in the 2019 case of two Alaska teens’ deaths. Plus, the Anchorage Police Department and the FBI are searching a home adjacent to the one owned by a missing Eagle River man.

The Anchorage Police Department and the FBI are searching a home directly behind the home owned by an Eagle River man who has been missing for more than a month. Plus,  24-year-old Dustin Ruckman is facing two counts of criminally negligent homicide for a May 2019 crash in which prosecutors say he lost control of his truck while driving up Unalaska’s Mount Ballyhoo, killing two teens in...