Also, the number of COVID-19-positive people in Alaska has grown to 4,588 resident cases and 815 nonresidents with the 70 newest resident cases and three resident cases distributed across 17 communities
Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski and 47 other U.S. senators are calling on congressional leadership and President Donald Trump to extend the deadline to complete the 2020 Census.
The appointee will fill the seat currently left vacant by the recent death of Kenai Republican Rep. Gary Knopp, who was killed earlier this month in a plane crash.
Alaska State Troopers have called off an active ground search but volunteers are continuing their efforts to find a 69-year-old Nenana man who…
Anyone with information about who might have dumped the animals is asked to call the Wildlife Safeguard Hotline at 1-800-478-3377.
COVID-19 cases rose 15% last week among Alaska residents, state health officials outlined in a recent weekly coronavirus report.
“I want to reassure our Alaska Nanooks student-athletes, parents, coaches, and the UAF and Fairbanks community that UAF’s athletics programs are not part of this recommendation,” White wrote in a statement Wednesday.
One of the more surprising races have preliminary results showing a conservative upset with newcomer Robert Myers ahead of Republican incumbent Sen. John Coghill in the primary race for Senate Seat B.
“Our direction has been that schools and teachers should work directly with families to find solutions for families that have no internet access,” Hadaway wrote in an email.
“Over the last four years, we have collectively totaled 85,802,697 steps or 42,401 miles,” said Marlin Collins, who helps manage the program.
Shooting directly into the sun is not ideal for most photographers. But this time, that technique earned a local Denali Park photographer an international award and a free safari to Botswana.
Thirteen Interior Alaska nonprofit organizations have been awarded …
Fourteen more Fairbanks residents and one additional resident from North Pole have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the Fairbanks North Star Borough cumulative case total to 517.
Frank Minano had stopped to look for firewood somewhere between Ester and Nenana and his pickup truck was found unoccupied on Standard Creek Road near Old Nenana Highway.
“Are educators (perhaps unintentionally) teaching from a lens that keeps ‘Eurocentric’ as normal and everything else as deficient?” the August 2020 report by Rodney Gaskins of RMG Business Consulting asks.
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A flock of these yellow Wilson Warblers visit me yesterday morning. They were after the birch seeds. Photo courtesy of Gaylene Evans, North Pole
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“On game days, we usually wake up and then go to film for about half an hour,” Hebard said. “After that, we all ride our bikes over to the practice gyms and do shoot-arounds.”
My childhood and teenage movie watching was marked by my dad’s collection of Spaghetti Westerns, “Star Wars” and Akira Kurosawa’s fantastic sa…
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Toilet paper and hand sanitizers are not the only products that have seen mind boggling increases in demand during the pandemic. The sales of guns, alcohol, backyard pools, Bibles and popcorn have all skyrocketed. I either have enough or don’t care about the other things listed, but when I h…
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As of Aug. 19, a total of 3,373 caribou have been taken in the state Fall Fortymile Caribou Registration hunt RC860, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
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