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Patrick Gilchrist/KUACAlaska Airlines says it has increased checked bag fees for most customers due to volatile fuel prices and global uncertainty. // Four more aerial-refueling planes arrived at Eielson Air Force Base earlier this month. // Two University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers completed a nearly 2,000-mile journey along Alaska's western coastline by snowmachine last week. // A typically routine appointment to a Fairbanks North Star Borough commission failed to gain enough support from Assembly members last Thursday. // For one engineer in Mission Control for NASA’s historic Artemis II flight, the passion for space exploration was born in a Kenai Peninsula classroom. -
Shelby Herbert/KUACThe regulatory maneuver would split up North Pole and Fairbanks in future assessments by the EPA, which would have to approve any request to divide the area.
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State lawmakers are throwing cold water on hopes for a super-sized Permanent Fund dividend, and a Fairbanks man is in custody after an armed standoff with law enforcement at his house. -
NewsAaron Hague, 37, is accused of killing another man and stealing his identity. -
The state of Alaska has finally secured the funding it needs to replace a couple aging bridges on the Alaska Highway, and this year's Iditarod champion just won the Kobuk 440 sled dog race. -
NewsMined metals rival Alaska seafood as top exports from the state, according to a state Department of Labor analysis. // An Alaska House committee last week inserted a roughly $3,800 Permanent Fund dividend into its latest draft of the state budget. But that figure is far from final. -
NewsDark and starry night skies won’t disappear entirely from Fairbanks as days get longer this spring and summer. -
NewsThree of Alaska’s key shipping companies are set to hike rates as fuel prices skyrocket amid the war with Iran. // The University of Alaska Fairbanks announced its opening the Interior’s first planetarium to the public later this month. // A federal judge last week dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed against the Alaska Office of Children’s Services. // A Harvard law professor weighs in on oral arguments about birthright citizenship in the U.S. Supreme Court putting Native Americans in the spotlight. // An Alaska Public Media reporter provides some context for Mary Peltola’s campaign messaging in the race for U.S. Senate.
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Meanwhile, administrators insist the center is growing and becoming more community-focused. -
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about the record cold March, and Fairbanks record cold winter. -
Recent controversy over reports of cutbacks at UAF's primary research institute for Alaska Native languages drew the attention of state lawmakers this week. // The Fairbanks borough has the highest residential vacancy rate in the state. That should be good for renters, but it isn’t that simple. // Alaska lawmakers are considering two bills that would eliminate the need to change our clocks twice a year. // University of Alaska staff voted to form a union. The Coalition of Alaska University Employees for Equity will be the UA system's largest union. // The federal government has announced that it’s giving Alaska $109 million to help pay for replacing two old bridges on the Alaska Highway. -
NewsA look inside the community with the state’s highest rental vacancy rate shows what that data point can capture – and what it can’t.
