Fairbanks City Council

The Fairbanks City Council adopted its spending plan for 2025 at Monday night’s regular meeting, with public safety departments and the city’s financial future headlining the discussions.

Unofficial results from Tuesday’s municipal elections left some races too close to call – like the one for Fairbanks North Star Borough mayor, in which 43 votes separate the top two candidates.

Here is a short segment, featuring just the borough assembly races, of the September 13 candidate forum hosted by the Tanana Valley League of Women Voters.

The Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce hosts Fairbanks City Council Candidates Jerry Cleworth, for Seat A (Sean McDonald was not at the forum) and three candidates for Seat B: Aaron Crook, Olivia Rodriguez and Valerie Therrien.

Candidates for Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly and Mayor, Fairbanks and North Pole City Council and North Pole Mayor, Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board and Interior Gas Utility Board are running in the October 1 municipal election.

Meeting last night (Mon), the Fairbanks city council put off voting on the Mayor’s choice for police chief. Mayor Jim Matherly forwarded Fairbanks Police…

Five law enforcement officers who applied to be Fairbanks’ next Chief of Police appeared at a public forum last night. They had already been vetted by…

There’s concern about the process City of Fairbanks Mayor Jim Matherly used to review applicants vying to be the city’s next police chief. During a city…

Meeting last night (Monday) the Fairbanks City Council voted down an ordinance that would have increased the tax on alcoholic beverage sales from the…

The police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis continues to focus attention on racism driven brutality and killings by law enforcement across the…