Fairbanks

A Fairbanks Head Start for Alaska Native families gets five more years of federal money

A Fairbanks Head Start for Alaska Native families won about $6.18 million in federal money through 2031 for classrooms and home visits from birth to age 5.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

UAF is buying an instrument its accredited chemistry program has gone without

Alaska's only accredited chemistry program has been operating without a standard mass spectrometry system. A $250,000 federal grant will finally buy one.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read

A UAF mathematician builds software to untangle interbreeding species' family trees

A UAF mathematician won a grant to build software untangling interbreeding species' family trees — the same math used to trace viruses like COVID-19.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago2 min read

UAF's satellite water-depth mapping wins NSF money to test whether it can become a product

UAF won a $50,000 NSF award to test whether its satellite water-depth mapping can become a product, a cheaper way to chart the many U.S. waters still unmapped.

by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read

Fairbanks draft river plan backs changing wastewater discharge so the Chena can freeze

A Fairbanks plan backs letting the Chena freeze through town again, undoing decades of warm power-plant water, though some residents worry about snowmachines.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Troopers recover stolen Durango sold for parts at Fairbanks home

A stolen Dodge Durango turned up in pieces at a Fairbanks home after its parts were listed for sale online, and troopers matched the VIN and made an arrest.

by Alaska News2mo ago1 min read

Golden Valley Electric has rules for community solar and no community solar

Golden Valley Electric now has approved rules for community solar and no community solar. Someone outside the utility has to build it first.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Fairbanks correctional officer charged with sexually assaulting inmate in transport van

A correctional officer is charged with sexually assaulting a woman in his custody inside a state transport van in 2024, a case that surfaced only this year.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Bristol Bay 2027 sockeye forecast to fall below 50 million, ending an 11-year run

Bristol Bay's sockeye run is forecast at 44.2 million for 2027, which would end an eleven-year streak above 50 million. The state still grades that strong.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Troopers investigate suspected drugs found at Fairbanks Correctional Center

Alaska State Troopers are investigating suspected drugs found at Fairbanks Correctional Center on August 18, with the substance sent to the crime lab for testing.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

FEMA's Mukluk Fire grant pays for firefighting, not for people who lost homes

FEMA declared a fire grant for the Mukluk Fire on Tuesday. It pays for firefighting supplies and crew gear, not for anyone who lost a house.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Wildland firefighters find Fairbanks man missing 19 days alive near Old Murphy Dome Road

Wildland firefighters found a 73-year-old Fairbanks man alive on Aug. 12 after he went missing for 19 days near Old Murphy Dome Road, while responding to the McCloud Fire west of the area.

by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

Follows: Smokejumpers contained the McCloud Fire at one acre, and found a lost person during the initial attack

Tatlanika Fire, allowed to burn since June, now fought at 31,421 acres

Nineteen firefighters are cutting fuel breaks around a Native allotment as the Tatlanika Fire grows to 31,421 acres, with crews now protecting structures on the fire's south end.

by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

Coal seam fire northeast of Healy grows to 71 acres with no crew assigned

A coal seam fire near Healy has grown to about 71 acres and can't be fought directly — the seam has burned underground for years, and no crew is assigned.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

A Fairbanks company owned by four Interior villages won a federal contract to replace a heat pump — in Boston

A Fairbanks firm owned by four remote Koyukuk River villages won a $30,780 federal contract to replace a heat pump, and the heat pump is in Boston.

by Melinda Communities.News3mo ago1 min read

UAF will study the landslides thawing under Alaska's pipeline

A UAF researcher will study why landslides start deep in thawing permafrost, aiming to protect Alaska's infrastructure — including the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

by Melinda Communities.News3mo ago2 min read

A suction dredge permit off Nome is open for public comment through Aug. 18

A suction dredging permit for a small operation off Nome is open for public comment through Aug. 18, in waters where gold dredging has long been established.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min readFrom Aug 11

Follows: A new Nome dredge application enters the pipeline that just rejected a fiercely fought gold mine

Wind advisory warns of 55 mph gusts on the Richardson Highway Sunday and Monday

Another… Another another wind story. It's gonna be windy. You live in Alaska - you kind of knew this was coming.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Old Chena Ridge Road closed for duration of roundabout construction

Road is closed, but only temporarily. One day.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

A dollar-a-year lease would help stand up an American Legion post near Alaska's first state veterans cemetery

A dollar-a-year lease would help build an American Legion post in Salcha, beside Alaska's first state veterans cemetery — a 257-acre site for 12,000+ vets.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

Fairbanks voters will weigh banning voting machines for hand counts

Fairbanks voters decide Oct. 6 whether to ban voting machines and hand-count all ballots — an initiative its backers call cost-saving and its critics contest.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

Troopers arrest Charles Yingst in Big Lake on warrants topping $2 million

Alaska State Troopers arrested Charles Yingst in Big Lake on Wednesday on warrants totaling more than $2 million for fraud and escape charges.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

A commission wants tougher riverbank protection than the developers asked for on a proposed Chena RV park

A Fairbanks commission wants tougher riverbank rules than a proposed Chena RV park's developers, and staff, sought — over how much to guard the water.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

NOAA pulled the plug on its 20-year Arctic climate record — and Alaska's scientists are scrambling to save it

NOAA cut its 20-year Arctic warming record, written largely by Alaskans — and UAF scientists are now scrambling to publish the 2026 edition themselves.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago3 min read

Smokejumpers contained the McCloud Fire at one acre, and found a lost person during the initial attack

Eight smokejumpers and two helicopters responded Wednesday to a half-acre fire burning 12.5 miles west of Fox, with no structures threatened.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Burn permits suspended in Fairbanks, Delta and Tok areas

Alaska banned burning across the Fairbanks, Tok and Delta areas as the Interior dries out and high winds approach, with the Tatlanika Fire smoking the region.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Interior faces warmest stretch of summer as Tanana Valley smoke lingers

Interior Alaska is in its warmest stretch of summer, upper 70s to low 80s, with smoke from the Tatlanika Fire — though the advisory has expired and air eased.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Anchorage and Fairbanks airports finish swapping PFAS foam out of crash trucks

Anchorage and Fairbanks airports replaced PFAS firefighting foam in their crash trucks with fluorine-free alternatives, cutting PFAS levels up to 99.999% in the tanks.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

A UAF fix for the battery-and-generator clash in village grids

When villages add batteries to diesel plants, the two can 'fight' and destabilize the grid — a UAF researcher is testing a fix to cut rural diesel use.

by Melinda Communities.News3mo ago2 min read

Fairbanks borough moves to study rural emergency coverage it flagged in 2018

A 2018 borough plan flagged spotty rural emergency coverage around Fairbanks. Seven years on, the borough is finally moving to study a fix — one that could redraw who covers whom.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Interior Native Vote pushes turnout for the Aug. 18 primary

Interior Native Vote is working to boost Native turnout for Alaska's Aug. 18 primary — a Fairbanks mixer drew 200-plus — as early voting opens.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

UAF will lead a project to mine critical minerals out of old mine waste

UAF will lead a federally funded project to recover critical minerals from old mine tailings, starting at $15 million and possibly growing to $160 million.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

Crews deploy to protect Native allotment near Tatlanika Fire

A remote Alaska fire left to burn has grown nearly 30-fold to 28,168 acres and now threatens a single Native allotment, drawing 14 firefighters to protect it.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

A Fairbanks blood-draw arrest raises a question about the evidence-tampering charge

A Fairbanks driver fought a court-ordered blood draw and was charged with evidence tampering — but a 2000 Alaska Supreme Court ruling raises a real question about whether that charge holds.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 3mo ago1 min read

Fairbanks inventors patent an ultra-light meal for the backcountry

Fairbanks scientists and a hunting expert patented a powdered meal for people who burn more calories than they can carry: hunters, racers, special ops.

by Melinda Communities.News3mo ago3 min readFrom Aug 4

Six graduate a Tanana Chiefs apprenticeship built to staff Interior clinics

Six apprentices finished Tanana Chiefs Conference's yearlong clinical training in Fairbanks — the first cohort where everyone who started made it through.

by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 3mo ago1 min read

Troopers: Fairbanks man, 79, injured in Old Nenana Highway motorcycle crash

A 79-year-old Fairbanks man was injured Wednesday in a motorcycle crash on Old Nenana Highway and taken to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Can a bacterium pull rare earths out of coal waste? Alaska researchers just got $4.7M to find out

Can a microbe mine coal waste for rare earths? Alaska researchers got $4.7M to find out — chasing a domestic source for minerals the U.S. mostly imports.

by Melinda Communities.News3mo ago2 min read

A UAF mathematician is building better tools for understanding networks

A UAF mathematician won a $150,000 NSF grant to build better tools for understanding complex networks, from how they're structured to faster ways to solve problems on them.

by Melinda Communities.News3mo ago1 min read

Alaska lost 15.8% of its federal civilian workers in two years, ISER economist reports

Alaska lost 15.8% of its federal civilian workers in two years, more than the national rate, mostly through buyouts rather than firings, hitting rangers and field staff hardest.

by Bill AlaskaNewsadded 3mo ago2 min read