A Fairbanks city councilmember is sponsoring an ordinance that would incorporate an Alaska Native land acknowledgement statement into every regular meeting. During a Tuesday work session ...

Alaska would be on the same time zone as Seattle for four months of the year, if a bill passed Monday by the Alaska Senate becomes law. The Senate voted 18-2 to pass Senate Bill 26, which would ...

For the first time since 2002, the Alaska Legislature has overridden the veto of a sitting governor. With a 46-14 vote, lawmakers enacted a significant increase to Alaska’s per-student public ...

Following a request by the federal government, the state of Alaska has turned over the personal information of roughly 70,000 Alaskans enrolled in the federally funded Supplemental Nutrition ...

There will be no extra money for the University of Alaska’s sports teams, its effort to become a top-tier research university or its attempts to hire and keep staff. On Friday, the legislative ...

Storefront owners in downtown Fairbanks will be able to apply for a city-sponsored initiative after the Fairbanks City Council unanimously approved a $250,000 pilot program funded by the city’s ...

Almost 20 years after eliminating Alaska’s public pension program, the House of Representatives has voted to open a new pension system for municipal and state workers. With proponents saying the ...

Trevor Haynes, president of the Alaska Marijuana Industry Association and manager of a Fairbanks marijuana business, said that while the association has issues with the way the state is regulating ...

“It’s just a really challenging time, and there’s a lot of volatility, and Alaska’s heavily dependent upon federal funds,” said Sen. Scott Kawasaki, D-Fairbanks. “We don’t have that ...

An unfunded mandate on small businesses, credit cards not accepted by Alaska vendors, and credit card reward programs like the Alaska Airlines mileage plan severely curtailed or ended; that is a ...

Could Fairbanks ever be entirely free of winter wood smoke? It seems unlikely in the near future. The particulate-free source of energy used for heat elsewhere in Alaska — natural gas — has ...

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