Patrick Gilchrist

The ground stop lasted about three hours before flights resumed Sunday night around 10 p.m. Alaska time.

It took some time for policy-makers to secure funds for demolishing the Polaris Building in Fairbanks. Then, a couple more years passed as contractors toppled the smaller building annex and methodically dismantled the vacant highrise floor-by-floor. On Saturday, all that remained was a pile of rubble — with one small exception.

Crews installed the bronze statue of hall-of-famer and former Goldpanner David Winfield in Fairbanks Thursday. The legal deal defining the tax value of the Trans-Alaska pipeline is set to expire at the end of the year. The bill defunding public media and some foreign aid programs has now cleared the House and Senate, despite objections from Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski. The U.S. Department of Agriculture axed a program this week that was supporting farmers and food producers in Alaska.

The value of the system matters because it helps determine the amount of property taxes the pipeline’s owners must pay to the state and municipalities it crosses. Those include the North Slope Borough, Fairbanks North Star Borough and the City of Valdez.

One monitoring well in Healy is still showing levels of heavy metals in groundwater that exceed federal standards, according to Golden Valley Electric Association

It's the latest recruitment tool to pass the city council that's meant to attract first responders and emergency services personnel.

Bear dogs are assisting firefighting crews this summer, showing big, furry problems sometimes benefit from big, furry solutions. The Doyon Foundation is using a federal grant to develop a language learning game. UAF researchers are looking to better understand the relationship between sockeye salmon and three-spined stickleback.

The state veterans affairs office has completed a draft environmental assessment for the Interior Alaska Veterans Cemetery. The Trump administration's recent freeze on federal education grants puts $3 to $4 million in limbo for Fairbanks area schools. An anti-infant circumcision group is touring Alaska, and they posted up at a North Pole roundabout Thursday.