Patrick Gilchrist

Mushers are moving over the first one hundred plus miles of trail after starting in Fairbanks Saturday.

The 11th Airborne Division will begin a major training exercise Monday near Fort Wainwright and Eielson Air Force Base. // Despite the state education commissioner overturning their decision, the president of the Fairbanks school board is standing behind the board’s unanimous vote to reject a charter school application last year. // The family of one of the victims who died in a Bering Air plane crash last year is suing the regional airline. // Mushers pulled their bib numbers at a Yukon Quest Alaska event Thursday. // One of Alaska’s most prolific murderers is buried in a place of honor, in a cemetery for veterans in Sitka. But that could change – with an act of Congress.

The assembly voted unanimously in favor of the ordinance establishing the tax incentives.

The Academic Policy Committee for Pearl Creek STEAM Charter School appealed to the state after the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Board of Education denied their application in October.

A judge ruled this week against a former Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly member who appealed an ethics violation that led to a $1 fine. // The state House ethics committee has launched an investigation into Homer Republican Rep. Sarah Vance. // How Nome reuses leftover Christmas trees. // Scientists have confirmed that destructive landslides are happening more frequently across Alaska using news articles dating back more than a century.

Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Brent Bennett affirmed the way the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly and Board of Equalization handled a complaint against Barbara Haney in 2024.

A federal inspector is investigating a fire that heavily damaged a large conveyor belt at Kinross Alaska’s Fort Knox mine. // Fort Greely restored its regular dining facility hours last week after a service disruption that lasted almost four months. // ConocoPhillips says its plans to drill four new wells this winter on the North Slope will go forward despite Friday’s accident involving a massive drilling rig. // The Fairbanks City Council failed a newly-introduced ordinance Monday that would’ve given the mayor a roughly 55% pay raise. // The rate of Alaskans dying from drug overdoses declined by 5% in 2024 compared to the year before, according to a recent state report.

But the council voted to advance a separate ordinance boosting their monthly stipends by $250.