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A hiring fair comes to the Fairbanks Job Center on Thursday
Job seekers can meet retail, grocery, restaurant and banking employers at a hiring fair Thursday at the Fairbanks Job Center, 11 am to 3 pm.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Ice risk on the Dalton Highway and Arctic Coast until noon
Freezing rain and snow could make roads slippery on the Beaufort Sea Coast and Arctic Plains through noon Wednesday, National Weather Service warns.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Both Alaska senators back advancing a federal NIL bill
Murkowski and Sullivan both voted to advance a federal college athlete pay bill. Alaska has no NIL law of its own, so federal rules would apply directly.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Mat-Su kept the Long Trail sign, and the $300,000 that came with it
Mat-Su took $300,000 and kept the trail sign some members worried would invite federal control. The borough's own attorney said it would not.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Van Horn Road is closed at University Avenue with no detour posted
an Horn Road is closed at University Avenue in Fairbanks for paving, with no detour and no reopening time. The state's alert can't decide which road is shut.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Fairbanks woman, 68, fell from horse into Wood River and died; cause under investigation
Debra Waugaman Curnow, 68, of Fairbanks died Monday after falling from her horse while crossing the Wood River near Snow Mountain Gulch.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Fairbanks flood maps are final. Borough page still points to appeals
Fairbanks' flood maps are final, but the borough still links to obsolete appeal instructions. The Jan. 8 maps change insurance and building rules.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Seventeen foreclosed Fairbanks properties sold, 25 drew no bid
Fairbanks sold 17 tax-foreclosed properties last month. One of them, assessed at $146,019, went for $12,120 — a hundred dollars over the minimum.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Alaska Supreme Court declines emergency bid to open Fairbanks charter school
Fairbanks said no to a charter school. The state said yes anyway. The Supreme Court declined to referee, and 352 enrolled kids were left in limbo.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Fairbanks companies seek a year-round water right for the pool at Circle Hot Springs
Two Fairbanks companies want a year-round water right at Circle Hot Springs — about 8.6 million gallons a day, on an application pending since 2020.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Troopers identify driver who left Ester street light crash
Alaska State Troopers identified a driver who knocked down a street light near Chena Ridge Road in Ester and left the scene without reporting the crash.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Anchorage coded most sampled spending to the wrong account, audit finds
Anchorage miscoded 72% of sampled spending, an audit found — because nobody ever wrote down what the city's accounting categories actually mean.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Fairbanks votes Oct. 6 on capping taxes, moving elections and hand counts
Fairbanks voters decide Oct. 6 whether to cap borough taxes, move elections to November and count ballots by hand. Any of it locks for two years.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Flood watch warns Chena and Little Chena could top minor flood stage Wednesday
Half an inch to an inch of rain is landing on ground that is already soaked. The Little Chena is the river for Fairbanks to keep an eye on now.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Alaska proposes a new payment formula for its 24-hour behavioral health clinics
Alaska wants to change how it pays two clinics providing 24-hour behavioral health care, setting rates in advance. Public comment is open through Oct. 30.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Fairbanks dense fog advisory expired at noon after visibility fell to 100 yards
Fog in Fairbanks got thick enough Monday that you could see about a hundred yards, and it did that an hour after the advisory was supposed to end.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
A road crew wants to camp in a gravel pit while it fixes the Elliott Highway
A contractor fixing 12 miles of the Elliott Highway wants to park 20 people in RVs on state gravel while it works. Comment closes Sept. 28.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
A free Juneau talk on how a manuscript becomes a book
Two editors from the press that publishes the University of Alaska's books will explain how a manuscript becomes a book, at a free Juneau talk Saturday.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
A Doyon director steps off the board to lead its scholarship foundation
Geri Simon stepped down from the board of Doyon, Limited — Alaska's largest private landowner — to lead its scholarship foundation, leaving a seat to fill.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Four Yukon villages get money for broadband design, not construction
Four Yukon River villages are getting broadband drawings, not broadband. The trunk line they would connect to is now 17 months behind schedule.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
North Pole council advances 3% pay raise for city employees
North Pole advanced a 3 percent raise for city employees Tuesday after rejecting a push to delay it and hearing that employee trust in the council is low.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Troopers airlift injured boater from Cosna River after capsizing en route to air ambulance
Alaska State Troopers airlifted an injured boater from the Cosna River on Sunday after the boat capsized while heading to an air ambulance pickup.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Troopers say stolen truck hit dump truck head-on in North Pole
A truck troopers say was stolen hit a dump truck head-on in North Pole. The driver was arrested on theft and DUI charges, which are not findings of guilt.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Flood watches cover McGrath and Fairbanks as one storm moves across Alaska
Flood watches take effect Monday for McGrath and Tuesday for Fairbanks as a multi-day storm brings heavy rain and wind across Alaska through Saturday.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min read
Troopers arrest Fairbanks driver on DUI charge after Steese Highway stop
DUI arrest in the north
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Idaho firm that already runs the Alcan port wins its $48,169 snow removal order
An Idaho firm won a $48,169 federal task order to plow the Alcan border port near Tok. The same company already holds a $1.16 million contract to run operations and maintenance at the port and the Fairbanks Federal Building.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago1 min read
Fairbanks committee takes up Fairbanks Street rezone that could allow 51 units on 13 lots
Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly Committee discusses rezoning 13 Fairbanks Street lots to allow up to 51 housing units instead of 25, driven by a vacant former bed and breakfast.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Fairbanks ordinance would shift board appointments from Assembly to borough mayor
Mayor Hopkins would gain power to appoint most borough board members now split between the Assembly and Fairbanks and North Pole, under an ordinance the Assembly takes up Wednesday.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Fairbanks would require union labor agreements on big borough projects
Fairbanks wants union-negotiated labor agreements on borough projects over $3.5 million, using an ordinance copied almost word for word from Anchorage.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Alaska's August was warmer than its July, for the fourth time in a century
August was warmer than July in Alaska this year, which has happened four times since 1924. July was the coldest since 2008 and kept the fires down.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
Fairbanks weighs broader authority to take ownership of abused animals
Fairbanks animal control lacks a direct forfeiture process for abused or neglected animals. A proposed borough rule would add one.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
High surf advisory holds until 10 p.m. Saturday as Utqiaġvik logs record September rain
A storm brought high surf to Alaska's Arctic coast and set a September rainfall record in Utqiagvik, the wettest day there in records going back to 1920.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Comment closes Oct. 12 on a plan to dig antimony 80 miles from Trapper Creek and refine it at Port MacKenzie
Alaska is taking comment until Oct. 12 on permits for the Estelle gold and antimony project, whose applicant is a Nova Minerals subsidiary that won $43.4 million in federal defense funding to make military-grade antimony trisulfide.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
A $16 million award would restructure primary care across the Interior
The biggest award in Alaska's rural health program is $16 million to change how primary care gets delivered and paid for across the Interior.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
War-driven oil prices are filling Alaska's treasury while straining its households
The same oil price spike is filling Alaska's treasury and straining its households — and Trump's $2 gas promise would take more than the war ending.
by Alaska News1mo ago5 min read
Flooding closes state vocational rehabilitation office in downtown Fairbanks
Flooding closed the state Department of Labor office in downtown Fairbanks on Friday, Sept. 11, halting walk-in service for vocational rehabilitation and disability employment support.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Draft permit would let Fairbanks discharge 11.2 million gallons a day into the Tanana
Fairbanks could keep discharging up to 11.2 million gallons of treated sewage a day into the Tanana River under a draft state permit.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Two Fairbanks rezones could take 32 lots to 99 dwelling units total
Fairbanks is being asked to upzone two residential corridors in five days. Together they would take 32 lots from 34 units up to as many as 99.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
The Legislature will spend $50,000 defending the seizure of a pilot's plane
A six-pack of Budweiser cost an Alaska bush pilot his $95,000 plane. The Legislature has now voted $50,000 to defend that at the Supreme Court.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
No license covers driving a concrete mixer, so this Alaska company teaches it
No license covers driving a concrete mixer, so a North Pole company supplying Fairbanks concrete since the 1950s teaches the whole craft in-house.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago2 min read