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Josi Shelley is on track to win the Yukon Quest Alaska 750.

A race official was rescued Sunday near Rampart after snow machining into overflow while out checking on musher Jonah Bacon, who was slowed by fresh snow on his way to the checkpoint.

Competition is tightening at the front of the Yukon Quest Alaska 750.

Quest mushers are making solid progress toward the race's halfway point, buoyed by village checkpoints.

An F-35A fighter jet crashed just before 1 p.m. Tuesday at Eielson Air Force Base. The pilot survived and the cause of the accident is under investigation.

Fairbanks birdwatchers braved temperatures well below zero this month for the Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count, an annual citizen science project that surveys bird populations.

The Milken Family Foundation awarded $25,000 to "phenomenal educator" Emily Snyder, a reading instructor for Nenana City School. The school serves about 200 kids in Nenana, a small town about 50 miles south of Fairbanks on the Parks Highway.