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The Earth is always moving. Here’s a less comforting one: Sometimes it moves violently — and Interior Alaska might be overdue.
The Iron Dog, also known as the world’s longest, toughest snowmobile race, will be returning to Fairbanks in 2026.
The former U.S. ambassador to the Arctic, Mike Sfraga, began a new job as interim chancellor of the University of Alaska ...
Here, the sun disappears for approximately 65 straight days during the polar night, plunging the town into total darkness. Then, in a dramatic reversal, it does not set for more than two months in ...
The ICE transfer of detainees to Alaska DOC custody raised serious concerns around standards of detention from legislators and advocates.
A U.S. Air Force airman died over the weekend following a kayaking accident in a section of the Chena River that runs through Fairbanks. Staff Sgt. Christian Diaz, 24, went into the river Friday ...
ICE asked the Alaska Department of Corrections to hold the immigrants for up to 30 days, department Commissioner Jen Winkelman said at a June 20 state legislative hearing.
Christian Diaz, of Houston, was killed during a kayaking accident in Fairbanks Alaska, FFD confirmed on Sunday, June 29.
In the never-ending lightness of the Alaskan summer, baseball at midnight needs no artificial illumination.
For more than a century, baseball teams in Fairbanks have played at midnight on the summer solstice, illuminated only by the sun.