Usibelli Coal Mine

Golden Valley Electric Association is celebrating 75 years of service to Fairbanks and outlying communities around the eastern Interior. But Golden…

A Fairbanks-based company hopes to begin construction in a couple of weeks on a facility that will dry firewood so it’ll burn cleaner. Aurora Energy…

Golden Valley Electric Association will close a facility that processes coal ash produced by the Healy 1 power plant within five years, because it’s been…

Officials with the University of Alaska Fairbanks and more than a hundred invited guests gathered Wednesday at UAF to celebrate completion of the $245…

Construction work on the University of Alaska Fairbanks’s new coal-fired powerplant is complete and workers are preparing for the first test of a major…

Usibelli Coal Mine is turning 75. The operation in Healy started by Emil Usibelli in 1943, and run by his son, and now grandson, is Alaska’s only…

Updated: Golden Valley Electric Association restarted and operated the boiler of its coal-fired Healy 2 powerplant for several hours during a test run…

State Forestry firefighters are working to contain a fast-growing wildfire near Healy that was ignited by two smoldering fires burning in coal deposits at…

The University of Alaska Fairbanks is building a heat-and-power plant to replace the old facility that went into service in 1964. The new $245 million…

The operator of Alaska’s only coal mine is speaking out against a new Obama administration water protection rule for the industry. As KUAC’s Dan Bross…