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FAIRBANKS—Murder trials in Alaska often take place more than a year after the crime, but an October trial is possible in the April killing of two Alaska State Troopers in Tanana.

FAIRBANKS — A cyclist appeared to escape major injury on Thursday afternoon after being hit by a car while crossing Peger Road, according to Fairbanks Police.

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ANCHORAGE — The alleged manager of an online business marketing women for commercial sex in five Alaska communities, including Fairbanks, has been jailed on sex trafficking charges.

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FAIRBANKS—A sinkhole opened up directly beneath a University of Alaska Fairbanks employee this morning, nearly swallowing a riding lawn-mower the size of a golf-cart.

FAIRBANKS — The Fairbanks Community Museum will move into the Co-Op Plaza in downtown Fairbanks. 

FAIRBANKS — Gov. Sean Parnell has made good on a promise to establish a board allowing local governments to have better input on a multi-billion-dollar natural gas pipeline project the state partnered on.

FAIRBANKS — A passenger car driven by a suspected intoxicated driver went off a Badger Road onramp and landed on its roof across a slough Wednesday morning, according to Fairbanks police. 

FAIRBANKS—A Fairbanks man linked to local rappers and caught with more than 13 ounces of cocaine in 2012 will spend a little more than nine years in prison.

Clarification: The fundraiser is Thursday July 10. 

FAIRBANKS — Another study and another confirmation that the multi-billion dollar oil and gas industry in Alaska creates local jobs and funds state and local governments.

FAIRBANKS — The Fairbanks Community Museum is filled to the brim with the history of the Interior. It’s a repository for all things gold rush, dog mushing, 1967 flood and just about anything else that makes Fairbanks, well, Fairbanks.

FAIRBANKS—A Fairbanks man was sentenced on Tuesday to nine months in prison for beating a homeless man for 10 minutes and six and a half years in prison for stealing about $12 during the beating.

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ANCHORAGE — A bear mauling on a Turnagain Arm trail sent a jogger to the hospital via helicopter with severe bite and claw wounds Monday morning.

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ANCHORAGE — An admitted drug trafficker and former heroin addict who shipped at least 10,000 oxycodone pills to Fairbanks and Juneau between 2008 and 2010 received a sentence of more than five years in prison Monday.

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FAIRBANKS — Utilities, state agencies and local leaders are gearing up for what they say will be a great deluge of affordable, clean-burning natural gas into the Fairbanks area.

FAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks woman allegedly went on a drunken hit-and-run-filled drive through downtown Saturday night before crashing into a power pole and knocking out power in the area.

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FAIRBANKS — “Aanłe,” said elder Eliza Jones, speaking the Athabascan word for “into the fire” as she threw a small piece of salmon strip into the flames. 

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FAIRBANKS — Two months ago Randy Zarnke, the president of the Fairbanks Hockey Hall of Fame and author of the book, “Fairbanks Hockey Pioneers,” got the call that he was one of 50 in the country to receive Community Leadership Award from the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition.

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FAIRBANKS—A decision is expected in two weeks as to whether or not Eielson Air Force Base will be the preferred home of a squadron of new F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, their pilots and support crews.

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FAIRBANKS — Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Begich will be in Fairbanks today with several campaign stops, including the launch of a Veterans for Begich group.

FAIRBANKS—A Gold Hill resident got a nasty surprise after returning from vacation this week when he discovered a sinkhole diving to depths of a stomach-churning 70 to 80 feet in his front yard.