Local News
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The Fairbanks Community Band is performing on the Davis Concert Hall Stage on Oct 19 at 4pm. This session of Alaska Live includes a preview of the Radio Drama "Bandwidth Radio Hour" which is part of their Sunday program.
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Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about the recent year's occurrence of ex-typhoons hitting Western Alaska.
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NewsThat means a count by human beings found that the borough-owned Dominion Voting Systems machines tabulated votes 100% accurately for the thousands of sampled ballots that were part of the audit.
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NewsThe Interior Gas Utility has received its first LNG from a new North Slope haul, but the utility's top executive says it'll be awhile before the haul is in full swing. The first iteration of a new hand count audit found the Fairbanks North Star Borough's voting machine tabulators were 100% accurate. A massive airlift is underway in Western Alaska as Alaska National Guard planes and helicopters transport people from villages devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.
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It’s been a week since the Interior Gas Utility received the first of four tankerloads of liquified natural gas from the North Slope. Observers called the shipments historic because it was the first time natural gas extracted and processed on the Slope was transported to market.And also because it was an important step in the utility’s transition to a sustainable source of the fuel.
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NewsThat's about $2 million more than the Academic Policy Committee backing the proposed school had estimated.
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NewsA North Pole man died Monday of injuries he sustained in a head-on collision on the Old Richardson Highway. Fairbanks public school administrators say a new charter school would cost the district more than the committee proposing it estimates. Local officials are still searching for two people missing from a Western Alaska village after remnants of Typhoon Halong left one dead and much of the region devastated by high winds and flooding. Escalating tensions between the U.S. and Canada fueled fears last winter that visits from Alaska's neighbor would drop; now, port of entry data near Haines does show a decrease, but not a full-scale boycott.
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NewsDemocratic Fairbanks Sen. Scott Kawasaki violated ethics law by holding constituent events too close to the 2024 state primary, a panel of the Alaska Legislature concluded in a report published Friday.
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NewsThe count wasn't as consequential as last year, when it was needed to decide the winner of the race for Fairbanks North Star Borough mayor. But this year's absentee and question ballot tabulations did settle one close race for FNSBSD School Board.
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NewsElection results are being certified in many Interior communities, and Alaskans are coordinating relief efforts after a typhoon devastated Western Alaska.
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