budget cuts

The FNSB Assembly held a finance meeting on Saturday, April 20.

School closures were the focus of a Monday night worksession for the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Board of Education. Members heard about the closures of Ben Eielson Jr./Senior High School and Ticasuk Brown Elementary school, as well as the possibility of closing two more elementary schools.

The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Board of Education passed a $222,873,000 budget Wednesday night – about 15.3 million dollars less than last year’s spending. The recommendation includes about a $56 million ask from local taxpayers. The budget goes now to the borough assembly for approval.

North Pole’s City Council decided Monday to begin collecting its sales tax on products and services bought online or from sellers outside of the…

The North Pole City Council has taken the first step toward collecting online sales taxes. The North Pole City Council has taken the first step toward…

A profoundly austere budget for Fairbanks North Star Borough schools was released yesterday. Superintendent Karen Gaborik says the $188,019,83 draft…

Like most institutions across the country the University of Alaska Fairbanks is uncertain about how much on campus activity there will be when the fall…

The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District is asking for a lot of public engagement this month as it works toward an April 1 deadline to submit a…

Elected Leaders of both the Fairbanks North Star Borough and City of Fairbanks said Wednesday that they and their staffs are studying how they'll deal…

There are eight vacancies for Village Public Safety Officers in Interior Alaska Villages.Governor Mike Dunleavy has proposed pulling back three million…