Alaska's senior senator spoke to the Northern Journal about some of the major congressional debates from the past year.

Today, Dec. 31, marks the end of 2025. Here’s a look at some highlights of 359 stories reported on by KYUK this year.

The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program was authorized as part of the Republican-backed “One Big Beautiful Bill.” At a news conference in Anchorage, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan said the program has the potential to reshape Alaska’s health care system in a way that benefits everybody.

Safari Club leaders and Alaska Native subsistence advocates have long been at odds over rights to hunt and fish in Alaska. But the sport hunting group reached out to help a group of Native hunters, displaced by October's devastating storm, reconnect to their subsistence culture.

David Paul’s sentence is among the longest given for sexual assault and sexual abuse in the state’s history.

Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica reporter Kyle Hopkins recently wrote about Whitman’s murder and Paul’s release. He said the incident speaks to wider issues within Alaska’s justice system.

Individuals who have been impacted by Typhoon Halong may be eligible for unemployment benefits if their ability to work was impacted.

In separate incidents in 2023 captured on police body cameras, Bernard Mael and Nicholas Kerr claimed that Bethel police caused them serious harm. A criminal trial is pending for a former officer involved in both incidents.