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Researchers improve king crab culture technology

Ben Daly 5/24/12 AKCRRAB biologists had great success culturing blue king crab at the Alutiiq Pride Shellfish Hatchery this spring. [...]

Man sentenced for ear biting incident

FAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks man who pleaded guilty to biting off a piece of another man’s ear and — in another incident months later — flicking blood at two...

Looking back in Fairbanks — May 24

10 YEARS AGO May 24, 2002 — People living in cabins near the end of Chena Hot Springs Road were evacuated when a small fire blew up to more than 200 acres in a few hours...

Mayor outlines cost-saving measures for borough to meet budget

FAIRBANKS — Flowers are blooming in Fairbanks, but the flowers in the iconic golden hearts along Airport Way won’t be blooming any time soon. They’ve been...

‘Cash Mobs’ deliver dollars: Local business benefits from shopping events

FAIRBANKS — As far as mob scenes go, the one outside Fireweed Consignment Boutique earlier this month was pretty understated. A dozen people gathered behind the Campus...

Animal shelter fund meeting set for today

FAIRBANKS — The Fairbanks Animal Shelter Fund will hold its 10th annual meeting at 6 p.m. today at the Farthest North Girl Scout Council Building. The shelter fund’s...

A Day to Remember in Fairbanks

For most of us, Memorial Day 2012 Fairbanks marks the beginning of a season of summer fun. But don’t let the real meaning of the holiday get lost amidst the barbecues and beach...

Accident on Van Horn slows traffic in South Fairbanks

FAIRBANKS - A traffic accident on Van Horn Road near the intersection with Easy Street is causing traffic delays, according to the Alaska Department of Transportation. The...

Cole appointed to Alaska Historical Commission

from:University of Alaska Fairbanks

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell has appointed UAF professor Terrence Cole to the Alaska Historical Commission.

Alaska Native cancer survivor group to meet

from:University of Alaska Fairbanks

The Fairbanks Native Association and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Center for Alaska Native Health Research are hosting a support group for Alaska Native cancer survivors and...

Organic farming experience offers cautionary tale

from:University of Alaska Fairbanks

Ginger Meta left Fairbanks a year ago with high hopes for the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms program she had joined.

Alaska Sen. Begich: More information is coming on Eielson Air Force Base

FAIRBANKS — Sen. Mark Begich said he expects to receive more detailed information next week about Department of Defense plans to relocate an F-16 squadron from Eielson Air...

Fairbanks school board accepts teacher contract

FAIRBANKS — As Superintendent Pete Lewis helped introduce the matter of ratifying the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District teacher contract at Tuesday night’s...

Fairbanks OKs grant money for teen shelter

FAIRBANKS — An amendment to the language of a grant agreement will allow a local organization to continue with plans to use the money to open an emergency shelter for...

Fairbanks City Council ratifies firefighter agreement

FAIRBANKS — A three-year collective bargaining agreement between the city and the firefighters union was ratified unanimously by the Fairbanks City Council Monday. The...

Republicans file for North Pole House district

FAIRBANKS — The race for the Republican nomination for the North Pole House district, a spot that all but guarantees a win in the overwhelmingly Republican-voting district,...

Militia case: Cox recorded saying officials need to 'dangle together like a wind chime'

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Recorded conversations were played for jurors Tuesday in the federal trial of Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox, who is heard detailing a plan to kill two...

Study: Arctic thawing is releasing ancient methane

FAIRBANKS — After spending the past decade studying the methane that gurgles out of Alaska lakes, Katey Walter Anthony began to see something unusual several years ago. The...

Looking back in Fairbanks — May 22

10 YEARS AGO May 22, 2002 — The fire danger is now so high that a hot chain saw ignited a brush fire Tuesday morning. The blaze torched a quarter-acre of spruce trees and...

Air Force secretary to visit Eielson today

FAIRBANKS — The fight to reverse the U.S. Air Force’s planned relocation of Eielson Air Force Base’s F-16 squadron is heating up today as top leadership visits...

Two men accused of thefts: Electronics stolen from parked cars

FAIRBANKS — Two Fairbanks men are accused of breaking into four vehicles to steal electronics this month in the parking lots of Walmart, Fairbanks Memorial Hospital and...

Fairbanks man leads police on chase

FAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks man convicted last month of spraying a Safeway employee with bleach during an attempt to shoplift meat is in trouble with the law again. This time...

Nanook hockey announces 2012-13 schedule

from:University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fourteen games against participants from the 2011 NCAA Tournament, six non-conference meetings including two tournaments – the Kendall Hockey Classic and Brice Alaska Goal...

Study: Geologic methane seeping from thawing cryosphere

from:University of Alaska Fairbanks

Geologic methane is seeping through the edges of thawing permafrost and receding glaciers in Alaska and Greenland, according to a study recently published in the journal Nature...

Looking back in Fairbanks — May 21

10 YEARS AGO May 21, 2002 — Running Club North and the Pump House Restaurant are sponsoring the Two Way Torture Test on Saturday. The road race features teams of two runners...

School project ranking system under review

FAIRBANKS — The state’s Department of Education is undergoing a review of its capital projects priority list ranking system. The review and probable update of the...

Rep. Don Young’s amendment could aid Eielson

FAIRBANKS — Alaska has scored a win in the ongoing fight against the Air Force’s plan to relocate Eielson Air Force Base’s F-16 squadron — a move some see...

Alaska inspires photographer, poet Jimmy Tohill

HEALY — When Jimmy Tohill was in junior high school, he would fall in love with a pretty girl and write her a poem. It was only natural when he came north and fell in love...

The sky is the limit for kids on Fairbanks Aviation Day

FAIRBANKS — An up and coming crop of future pilots took to the air under sunny blue skies Saturday during Fairbanks Aviation Day at Fairbanks International Airport. An...

Contractor sues Fred Meyer for failed remodel

FAIRBANKS — A general contractor that was fired from a disastrous remodeling project at the West Fairbanks Fred Meyer store has sued the company for more than $5 million,...

Fairbanks Heart Walk surpasses expectations

FAIRBANKS — Under the warm morning sun Saturday, people released their grips on dozens of red and white balloons. As they floated higher and higher, tails whipping in the...

First-year teachers survive the school year

FAIRBANKS — The students bent over their final exams in concentration, scattered around the classroom in the few remaining desks. The other desks were stacked along the wall...

Looking back in Fairbanks — May 20

10 YEARS AGO May 20, 2002 — Old buildings may not talk, but they can leave clues. Sunday afternoon a section of the New York Times, dated Sept. 15, 1929, was found sticking...

Denali Highway open for the season

FAIRBANKS — The Denali Highway is open. The 135-mile road connecting the Parks and Richardson highways opened for the season Tuesday, according to Meadow Bailey, public...

Team of soldiers climbing Mount McKinley

FAIRBANKS — A team of six soldiers from the Northern Warfare Training Center at Fort Wainwright began climbing Mount McKinley Thursday. The group is broken into two,...

Man riding bike allegedly assaulted, robbed

FAIRBANKS — A man riding a bicycle early Thursday morning behind the Fairbanks police station was beaten up and had his bicycle stolen by a man, a woman and a teenage boy,...

Helen Snedden, wife of C.W. Snedden and longtime local philanthropist, dies at 96

FAIRBANKS — Throughout her long, active life Helen Snedden, 96, never drew attention to herself. Described by friends as a “brilliant” but very private person,...

Driver of truck who injured passengers in wreck charged with assault

FAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks man who was injured when he rolled a pickup truck last summer at Harding Lake has now been indicted on felony assault charges. A Fairbanks grand jury...

Fairbanks to see partial solar eclipse

By JULIE STRICKER jstricker@newsminer.com In the middle of a typical sunny Fairbanks summer day on Sunday, a huge shadow will fall across the sky as a partial solar eclipse...

Kelly, Bishop enter Senate race

By MATT BUXTON mbuxton@newsminer.com Campaigns for this fall’s elections have made a slow start in the Interior, given uncertainty about new district boundaries, but two...

Memorial walk honors injured soldiers

By DOROTHY CHOMICZ dchomicz@newsminer.com Slowly but steadily, the soldiers came. Some swung by on crutches, while others progressed step-by-careful-step on prosthetic legs. One...

North Pole event includes car show, fire demo

FAIRBANKS — The City of North Pole is throwing an all day Open House from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday that will include a Cruis’n with Santa Car Show and Street Fair,...

Aviation Day features multiple events

FAIRBANKS — Fairbanks Aviation Day, from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, allows the public to get a behind-the-scenes look at what goes on at Fairbanks International Airport. The...

Lecture to explore biomass and forestry

from:University of Alaska Fairbanks

The UAF Cooperative Extension Service will host a free public lecture, “Biomass and Boreal Forestry Ecology,” Monday, May 21 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Noel Wien Library...