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Safeway storesAlaska Safeway and Carrs stores will be sold to C&S Wholesalers if a divestiture plan goes through later this year. It’s part of a proposed $24.6 billion merger of Kroger and Albertsons companies, and includes turning both Fairbanks Safeway stores and one in North Pole into C&S groceries, while maintaining current job and wage levels. -
Alaska Energy AuthorityGolden Valley Electric Association chief executive John Burns will retire next month, and the co-op’s board has selected chief operating officer Travis Million as the new CEO. Million says he intends to pick up where his predecessor left off in navigating Golden Valley’s transition to more cost-efficient and environmentally friendly ways of generating and transmitting electricity.
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Alaska Energy Metals executives met with Delta Junction-area residents Monday to talk about a nickel deposit the company is exploring near Paxson. They say the Nikolai Project could become an important source of the metal essential to manufacturing green energy products like wind generators and electric-vehicle batteries. -
A new fast-food restaurant and convenience store opens today in Delta Junction, with a grocery store expected to follow. The new grocery will replace one that collapsed under a heavy snow load two years ago. -
Three Bears Alaska says it’s interested in two acquiring two Sourdough Fuel gas station-convenience stores in North Pole, and is continuing to work on other expansion plans around the state. -
Three Bears Alaska is looking to continue its statewide expansion. The rapidly growing Wasilla-based grocery and retail chain’s is negotiating for properties in North Pole and looking elsewhere for more.
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NewsA new study predicts accidents will increase next year when big trucks begin hauling gold ore 240 miles from a mine in Tetlin to Kinross’s Fort Knox mill. That’s one of many findings reviewed Tuesday by a state Transportation Department committee analyzing the trucking route. -
About 100 workers at the West Fairbanks Fred Meyer store have asked to join the United Food and Commercial Workers. Yesterday they presented a letter to the store’s management. The non-grocery workers would join grocery, and meat & seafood employees in the store, who are already represented by the same union. -
Ten years ago, Co-op Market Grocery & Deli opened in Fairbanks as the first member-owned cooperative grocery store in Alaska. The are holding an annual meeting and storytelling event tomorrow to mark 10 years in business -
The UAF drone program is getting ready to test a pilotless plane for freight deliveries to villages. It is the very first step in a testing regimen that may expand the supply chain in Alaska. -
Three Bears Alaska is now the owner of the Gold Hill liquor store in Ester, a small community near Fairbanks. The Wasilla-based retail chain closed the deal on Wednesday, then began replacing signage and equipment and inventory in time to reopen this morning as the 20th Three Bears store in Alaska. -
Voter turnout in Tuesday’s municipal elections was disappointingly low in both the Fairbanks North Star Borough and City of Fairbanks, elections officials say.
