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A Fairbanks resident has invited experts and representatives from different political groups to a bipartisan panel. Alaska education leaders spoke at a U.S. Senate hearing on behalf of programs that support Indigenous students. The University of Alaska Board of Regents' decided to scrub mentions of DEI off of their webpages last month. Now, critics are concerned about the transparency of that process. A local tea company is offering to pay its employees’ college tuition. -
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.
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NewsFairbanks International Airport officials are keeping a close eye on the imminent eruption of Mt. Spurr. Three Bears Alaska will soon unveil its latest retail outlet in the state — a grocery store and gas station in Delta Junction. Last weekend’s T-Dog sled dog race brought 39 mushers from across the country to Fairbanks. -
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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.
