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.

Every Delta Junction City Council seat on the municipal election ballot is being contested by two or more candidates. The city clerk says it’s the most competitive election cycle she’s seen in the 20 years she’s held the job.