Patrick Gilchrist

U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez DeRemer toured the Fairbanks Pipeline Training Center with Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan Friday.

More than 100 Alaskans celebrated the life of mushing trailblazer Mary Shields last weekend. A legal battle is brewing between Gov. Mike Dunleavy and the Alaska Legislature. In 2015, a man died in Lemon Creek Correctional Center after staff denied him medical care, and now, his widow wonders if the state has made any changes to prison protocol.

One council member says it's redundant. The police chief disagrees.

Candidates for Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board fielded questions from students at West Valley on Wednesday. The North Pole City Council passed an ordinance Monday to prohibit collecting donations from vehicle occupants. Sen. Lisa Murkowski broke from other Republicans on the Senate health committee at a Wednesday hearing.

The decision marks a couple of firsts for the competition: both new mileage, as well as a new, looped version of the trail.

One of the top three is an uncontested race for Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly.

The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly passed an ordinance Thursday authorizing the mayor to accept the 309 donated acres from the Interior Alaska Land Trust.

Thousands of acres near Delta Junction have changed hands in what the Alaska Farm Bureau president says it's the biggest farm sale in Alaska history. The founder of an influential, conservative Alaska blog says she resigned her this week due to a dispute with the site's owner.

Antimony reclamation operations started at the Mohawk property after an “exclusive VIP site visit” on Monday, the company says. Industry leaders, local and state elected officials and their staff, as well as staff for Alaska’s congressional delegation were among those invited. U.S. Antimony planned for about two dozen to make it to the tour.

A Dallas-based mining company says it has started work to recover a critical mineral from historic mining deposits at a site near Fairbanks. The Bering Sea Land Bridge National Preserve has renovated its center in Nome. An Alaska state representative presented a longtime Fairbanks and KUAC reporter with an award from the state legislature on Wednesday. The top oil-producing company in Alaska announced last week that it's planning significant layoffs.