The commander of a U.S. Space Force base in Greenland has been fired after she sent a base-wide email breaking with official messaging following Vice President JD Vance’s visit to the Danish territory that President Donald Trump is seeking to annex.
The Alaska House of Representatives voted to cut its proposed 2025 Permanent Fund dividend by almost two-thirds on Friday as the House’s contentious budget process lurched another step forward, as reported Friday by Alaska Beacon.
Record-low winter sea ice in the Arctic this year adds to a continued trend of decreasing seasonal sea ice and an increase in threats faced by communities along Alaska’s northern and western shores.
Representative Will Stapp and Senator Scott Kawasaki made a visit to Fairbanks to speak at a town hall meeting to discuss House Bill 69. They share their thoughts on the bill being passed to increase school funding.
Snow just won't go! April weather has included plenty of spring snow. Two more storms impact Alaska over the weekend, and will continue the snow trend over the Aleutians and southwest over the weekend.
Six Fairbanks businesses united together, organizers say, to show appreciation to 1,700 Fairbanks North Star Borough School District employees by donating more than $500,000 in gift cards.
House Bill 69 — the state's education funding bill — is slated to be taken up on the Senate floor Friday. The governor has already threatened to immediately veto the legislation.
Sen. Dan Sullivan and the Alaska Congressional Delegation are welcoming a $25 million investment from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to improve safety in Alaska’s skies.
In order to encourage residents to grow food locally and increase donations, the Fairbanks Community Food Bank is beginning operation of a Biodigester in its warehouse.
The DOT is seeking feedback on a project design that will add traffic lights, medians and new lanes to the intersection of the Parks Highway and Sheep Creek Road.
The Alaska Permanent Fund, the No. 1 source of general-purpose revenue for state services and the Permanent Fund dividend, suffered a multibillion-dollar loss during last week’s stock market crash.
Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute were in Costa Rica in early March. The four-person group used drones to go inside the crater of a volcano for samples of gas.
The Fort Wainwright Army Substance Abuse Program is taking part in Alcohol Awareness Month, highlighting the risk factors of alcohol and safe habits when drinking.
On a small island in the Aleutians, some place names from World War II are reminders of the hate and racism of that time. An Anchorage historian has been working to correct that.
On May 7, REAL IDs will be required to board domestic flights as well as certain federal facilities. However, some Alaskans in rural communities are finding the path to obtain those IDs complicated and expensive.
With the chance of Mt. Spurr erupting, a potential for air cargo to be disrupted threatens the supply chain of goods going to Fairbanks and other communities in Alaska.
April snow showed up in southcentral, dropping 3 inches in Anchorage. The latest date Anchorage has seen measurable snow (considered at least .10th of an inch) was May 22nd of 1964. Snow is still possible overnight and mornings as nighttime temperatures go to the mid 20s.
