Interior

While subsistence has been slow, commercial chum fishing was open in the lower river with dipnets and beach seine gear.

There were 56 new wildfires Monday statewide, and 238 active, mostly in interior and southwest Alaska.

One of four Fairbanks men fighting for exoneration from murder convictions was paroled last week. The Alaska Native community gathered in Fairbanks over the weekend to welcome home Marvin Roberts.

Damen Bell Holter, a young man who grew up in Hydaburg, played basketball in Ketchikan and knows well the struggles some kids in rural Alaska experience.

The Healy Lake fire made a major push west toward Delta beginning late Wednesday night and increased in size from 2,000 to up to 6,000 acres.

Lightning ignited two new wildfires east of Delta Junction Tuesday night.