Court uses wellness program to tackle Fairbanks' DUI problems FAIRBANKS — Each Thursday, a group of DUI offenders meets in the Rabinowitz Courthouse. The offenders check their watches and go inside the courtroom, where they await their turns before the ...
Fairbanks woman prepares for aid trip to Haiti FAIRBANKS — For the second time in five years, Jo Miller is heading to Haiti on a medical mission. In 2005, the physician’s assistant spent a week with an 18-member Christian Medical Dental Asso...
Lost Fairbanks snowmachiner sets ride on fire to keep warm FAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks snowmachiner, Andrew Noble, 28, lit his ride on fire to stay warm early Saturday after he became separated from friends while traveling to his cabin southwest of Nenana. ...
Alaska Nanooks' national championship rifle dreams evaporate FAIRBANKS — In the end, it wasn’t the defending champion West Virginia Mountaineers who posed the biggest threat to the Alaska Nanooks at the NCAA Rifle Championships. It was the host Texas Ch...
Kaleigh Sparks, 11, left, and Samantha Clemens, 10, show their support for the Fairbanks Ice Dogs prior to Saturday evening's, March 13, 2010, second annual North American Hockey League outdoor game against the Wichita Falls Wildcats at the Big Dipper Ice Arena. John Wagner/News-Miner
FAIRBANKS — Carrying a firearm into a municipal building is legal, but is it wise to openly display a gun at a heated public meeting? The presiding officer of the Borough Assembly said openly disp...
Former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens says the AGIA pipeline plan has flopped and the state should put up billions to pay half the cost of an in-state natural gas pipeline project to Kenai. It should also switch its support to the building of a trans-Alaska pipeline to Valdez that would export LNG...
The Legislature is considering a bill to provide different types of state assistance to encourage the building of natural gas storage facilities in Cook Inlet to help hold down electricity and heating costs in Anchorage and vicinity. Storage facilities are needed to help even out the uneven d...
Several readers asked whether the borough could ban guns at borough meetings. I checked the state law and the answer is—yes, with one condition. State law allows municipal governments to prohibit firearms within parts of local government buildings. T...