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Fairbanksans bundled up Saturday to voice their frustration with the Trump administration as part of the nationwide No Kings protest. // At least 25 communities around Alaska observed No Kings Day, including Fairbanks and also smaller towns, like Healy, Nome and Delta Junction. // Alaska Federation of Natives delegates called for an immediate emergency declaration from President Trump Saturday for communities hit by Typhoon Halong. // The Anchorage Health Department says a person who arrived in last week has been diagnosed with measles. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy visited two western Alaska villages Friday to assess the damage caused by high winds and flooding from Typhoon Halong. // Members of a panel that met Friday at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention emphasized the need for cooperation in managing subsistence use of fish and wildlife. -
Patrick Gilchrist/KUACThat 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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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. -
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. -
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. -
NewsElection results are being certified in many Interior communities, and Alaskans are coordinating relief efforts after a typhoon devastated Western Alaska. -
NewsUsing samples gathered from a permafrost tunnel north of Fairbanks, researchers have awakened microbes that were last active as far back as 40,000 years ago. -
NewsNearly a hundred residents from the village of Shaktoolik evacuated to nearby Unalakleet. But it created a special opportunity for elders from around the Norton Sound region to reconnect. -
At least three people were missing, one person died and fifty-one had been rescued after a record-breaking storm slammed into the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in western Alaska Sunday. // The first group of evacuees from coastal villages flooded by Typhoon Halong has arrived in Bethel. They’re staying at the National Guard Armory, which has been converted into a 100-bed shelter. // After the typhoon tore through western Alaska, remnants of the storm passed through the eastern Interior Sunday night. // The Alaska Department of Health issued a bulletin last week summarizing the Pertussis outbreak that surged last fall. -
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NewsThat would be $11 million less than the deficit the Fairbanks North Star Borough School district faced during the budgeting process for the current fiscal year. -
Coastal communities in western Alaska reported widespread damage over the weekend after the remnants of a typhoon brought hurricane-strength winds and record flooding to the area. // The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Board of Education's budget committee opened talks last week on next year's budget. // The Alaska Board of Education unanimously voted against a proposed regulation that would have limited how much money local governments can give to schools. // The City of Fairbanks is still figuring out what to do with the site of the Polaris Building. Meanwhile, city officials have partnered with a nonprofit that held a dance party at the site last weekend.
