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The City of Fairbanks is reviving its Emergency Services Patrol program. A Canadian company is exploring the possibility of building a new gold mine in Juneau. One of the last sled dog races of the season will start in Kotzebue tomorrow. The State House passed a bill last week that would help protect foster kids from unnecessary stays in acute psychiatric care facilities. -
Alaska's Congressional Delegation supports leavinG the USPostal Service as a government service - not privatizing it.FNSB mayor Grier Hopkins releases his plan for next year's budget.The AK appeals court decides to uphold the parole denial for a North Pole man convicted of murder nearly 40 years ago.The pilot of a plane crashed last week and saved in a dramatic rescue might not have been legal to fly.An executive order adjusting rules around voting could hurt voters in rural Alaska Native communities.
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EducationThe budget for Fairbanks-area schools is now passed to the Borough Assembly after an arduous week of budget-cutting in hours-long meetings. School board members have been anticipating huge cuts since last fall, when they started to work on a $16 million deficit. -
A 16-year-old snowmachiner died Saturday after he was caught in an avalanche in Turnagain Pass, in SouthCentral Alaska.Two injured climbers were rescued Sunday from a site high up on the slope of a mountain in the eastern Alaska Range west of Black Rapids. Three people were rescued Monday morning after their small plane went through the ice near the east side of Tustumena Lake, on the Kenai Peninsula.The plan to clean up polluting particulates in the air in Interior Alaska gets another comment period.People living in the northern part of the state will have a chance to watch rockets soar through aurora-lit night skies for the next couple weeks. -
NewsIt’s part of an experiment called “AWESOME,” which seeks to observe how auroras affect Earth’s upper atmosphere. -
NewsThe federal government is investigating and suspending research funding for some universities for not complying with recent executive orders. That’s left some UAF faculty and students waiting for the other shoe to drop. -
A groundbreaking report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People commissioned during the first Trump administration is missing from its home website. -
A report written by lead authors in Fairbanks that highlighted the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous people was removed from several federal websites last month. The University of Alaska system is adjusting to scrubbing DEI language from websites and materials, leaving faculty and students wondering if they can still teach and study.The attorney who represented the four Fairbanks police officers in a lawsuit against them and the City related to the Fairbanks 4 case is allowed to back out. -
A couple dozen retired and off-duty postal workers were joined by a handful of community members in front of the Downtown Fairbanks Post Office on Thursday, to protest changes to the postal system. -
Fairbanks area postal workers protest in response to Trump's statements about privatizing the postal service. Sen. Dan Sullivan's legislative address contrasts Sen. Lisa Murkowski's take on the first couple months of the new Trump administration. UAF study finds EVs can save money for rural Alaska drivers in some situations. North Pole City Council accepts resignation for not one -- but two -- council members
