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Alaska election redistricting lawsuit heads to an appeal
FAIRBANKS — Both parties in a lawsuit about Alaska’s plan to redraw House election district lines announced plans Tuesday to appeal a recent Superior Court Decision to the Supreme Court. On a 5-0...
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Fairbanks borough tackles air quality again
FAIRBANKS — In two weeks, the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly will take another crack at the controversial issue of improving air quality in the borough. A measure introduced by Assembly me...
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Fairbankns school board gets an earful about budget issues
FAIRBANKS — It was standing room only at the beginning of the school board meeting Tuesday night. Parents, teachers, students and community supporters came to testify about the district’s proposed ...
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Tanana man pleads guilty in sex assault case
FAIRBANKS — A Tanana man pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexually abusing a teenage girl. He is expected to receive a five-year prison sentence under the terms of a plea agreement but will not be sentenc...
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Middle Nenana River Advisory Committee votes down antlerless hunts in 20A
FAIRBANKS — The Middle Nenana River Advisory Committee voted against the reauthorization of an antlerless moose hunt in Game Management Unit 20A on Monday in Healy. The committee voted 6-4 against...
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New subscription fire service contains Salcha blaze
FAIRBANKS — The Salcha Fire and Rescue Department confined a fire last week to the rafters of a home thanks to help from residents and neighbors equipped with handheld smoke detectors. The fire w...
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Woman injured in collision on Parks Highway
FAIRBANKS — A head on collision Tuesday night on the Parks Highway near Sheep Creek Road sent a woman the hospital and closed the highway for about 2 1/- hours. The 22-year-old woman who was injur...
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Ice getting thicker on Tanana River at Nenana
FAIRBANKS — The Tanana River ice at Nenana has grown 10 inches in the last 3 1/2 weeks, but it’s still thinner than in most past years. Nenana Ice Classic officials measured the ice Monday at 33 i...
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Fundraiser for suicide prevention set for Friday
FAIRBANKS — A suicide prevention fundraiser will be held at 5 p.m., Friday, at the Chief David Salmon Tribal Hall. The event is in support of Tanana resident, Vernon Stickman, who plans to begin a...
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Sports
Arctic Bears wrap up season in exciting fashion
FAIRBANKS—Fairbanks’ girls high school hockey team had an exciting end to its season last weekend against the Mat-Su Ravens. Trailing 3-1 going into the third period, the Arctic Bears scored four ...
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Wolfpack sweep Ravens
FAIRBANKS—No one player, according to head coach Steve Caciari, stood out for the West Valley girls basketball team in Tuesday night’s 55-15 nonconference win over the Eielson Ravens at West Valley...
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Malemutes, Rams split nonconference games
FAIRBANKS—The Lathrop Malemutes hosted the Monroe Catholic Rams in a pair of nonconference games Tuesday and finished the night with a split. Both games finished with the same score, just different...
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NAHL honors Ice Dogs' Levin
FAIRBANKS—Gabe Levin leads the North American Hockey League in scoring, and on Monday, the Fairbanks Ice Dogs forward was honored by the junior league, receiving the Second Star among the NAHL/Comb...
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West Valley, Lathrop begin state hockey action this week

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Ski, running events scheduled
FAIRBANKS — Warm weather has returned to the Interior just in time for the Nordic Ski Club of Fairbanks’ to host the fourth race in the eight-race Wednesday Night Ski Series. The race is scheduled...
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Boyer wins second straight race on final day of Besh Cup races
FAIRBANKS — Hannah Boyer of Fairbanks posted her second straight ConocoPhillips Besh Cup victory Sunday to complete a perfect weekend of Nordic skiing at balmy Birch Hill Recreation Area. With tem...
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West Valley girls top Juneau-Douglas at Anchorage tournament
FAIRBANKS — The West Valley Wolfpack outscored the Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears 21-11 in the second half to claim a 44-35 victory in the third-place game at the 2012 Lady Lynx Shootout girls high s...
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Fort Yukon girls, Cook Inlet Academy boys take title in Nenana tourney
FAIRBANKS — The Nenana Lynx were foiled in their bids to win the championship games in their own tournament Saturday night. The Fort Yukon girls and the Cook Inlet Academy boys captured the champi...
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News-Miner Editorial
Grenade hit: Murkowski doesn’t deserve conflict of interest innuendo
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial Sometimes a glance at a map is worth more than any number of words. The Washington Post on Tuesday dedicated 81 words to the fact that Sen. Lisa Murkowski, ...
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Letters to the Editor
Perpetuating crime
Letter to the editor Feb. 2, 2012 To the editor: I read Matt Buxton’s article (Jan. 26), “Lawmakers seek to cut crime, costs,” with interest. More interest than most, because I am a high schoo...
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Boot tax
Letter to the editor Feb. 2, 2012 To the editor:  I have some questions about the proposed borough vehicle tax and its effect on property taxes: Since there are presumably more vehicle owners ...
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Trade-offs
Letter to the editor Feb. 2, 2012 To the editor: Dermot Cole is gifted in explaining complex issues in more easily understood terms, as he did again in his Jan. 23 column detailing how the sta...
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Nonsense
Letter to the editor Feb. 3, 2012 To the editor: In his community perspective column of Jan. 27, Alaska Commissioner of Revenue Bryan Butcher continues to promote the Parnell administration’s ...
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Features
Eric Engman/News-Miner Iris Sutton with her daughter Hazel and one of her sled dogs Twiggy at her Goldstream Valley home.
'Send off': Yukon Quest artist brings a lifetime of experience to her work
FAIRBANKS - Toddler Hazel Sutton trundles around the living room, a small space somewhere between cozy and cramped, wearing one large green flip-flop and chewing lustily on another. A mess of parka...
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“Let Insecurities Lie,” courtesy of Lindsay Saunders
Fighting phobias: Two Rivers sisters put their unusual fears on canvas for First Friday
FAIRBANKS - Two sisters have put their phobias down in paint for their First Friday show, “Rodentia Lagomorpha,” at Keller Architecture and Allied Arts. The dark, somewhat sinister paintings showca...
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Self portrait by John Gimbel
January brought extreme cold to Alaska's Interior ... your thoughts in Six Words
FAIRBANKS - A week ago today, we spontaneously put out a Six Words call about the extreme cold blanketing the Interior. We knew it wouldn’t take long for people — residents, former residents and...
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© 1988 Charles Mason photos During the final days of the 1988 rescue effort these Barrow residents got a chance to actually touch one of the two gray whales. In the background, more holes are being cut in the ice to make a path to the pressure ridge, where the Soviet icebreaker will eventually cut a path through to the holes.
Real life ‘Big Miracle’: World followed Barrow’s 1988 attempt to save stranded gray whales
FAIRBANKS - The media poured into Barrow, Alaska, in the fall of 1988, as people tried to save three whales trapped in sea ice with no way to get to the distant open water. As sympathy spread acros...
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No politicians or topic is off limits when it comes to the Capitol Steps, a comedy troupe founded in 1981 by former congressional staffers. Part of the Fairbanks Concert Associations 2011-12 season, the show starts at 8 p.m. Saturday. Photo courtesy of Fairbanks Concert Association
No politician off limits for the irreverent Capitol Steps
FAIRBANKS - Do you want to hear Obama sing a show tune? Hear Biden rock out to the Eagles? Watch Newt Gingrich tip-toe through a ballet? Thanks to the Capitol Steps, you can. All of the major pri...
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Chris Dauel, bike shop manager at Beaver Sports, demonstrates winter trail riding on his fat bike Wednesday, January 25, 2012. Eric Engman/News-Miner
Fat bikes: Super-sized tires may look strange, but they go in snow
FAIRBANKS — A few years ago, whenever John Shook saw fat tire tracks on the Goldstream Valley trails, he pretty much knew who made them. It either had to be Jeff Oatley or his wife, Heather Best, o...
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"Alaska’s Fountainhead Collection: Vintage Treads and Threads" By Nancy DeWitt Fairbanks Antique Auto Museum • 2011 $19.95
Classic collection: Book provides detail, context to Fairbanks’ automobile museum
FAIRBANKS - Inside the Golden Heart City is a pearl of great price -- many pearls and beyond price. I’m talking, of course, about the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum at the Wedgewood Resort. This...
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A scene from the Fairbanks Light Opera Theatre s production of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, at the Alaska Center for the Arts Theater. Sam Harrel/News-Miner
Relive the ’60s in FLOT’s ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’
FAIRBANKS - Fairbanks Light Opera Theatre is preparing to dazzle its musical crowd. Bright, psychedelic 1960s colors will swarm Pioneer Park’s Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts Theater tonight ...
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Eric Engman / News-Miner Tanner Benson of Eagle River pulls out of a “high mark” during the 2007 Arctic Man Ski and Sno-Go Classic in the HooDoo Mountains outside of Summit Lake. / Eric Engman / News-Miner
Arctic Man movie slated for a Fairbanks premiere
FAIRBANKS — If you’re a fan of the Arctic Man, you won’t want to miss this. The premiere showing of “Arctic Man The Movie,” a 43-minute long movie about the Tesoro Arctic Man Ski and Sno-Go Classi...
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John Wagner/News-Miner Volunteers hustle to provide snacks to hungry hockey fans prior to a North American Hockey League game between the Fairbanks Ice Dogs and the Alaska Avalanche.
Many helping hands support Ice Dogs hockey in Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS - We’ve all seen the high-speed video of a sports venue coming to life prior to a game, the short, time-lapsed videos that compress two hours in to two minutes. It starts with an empty st...
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Local Columns
Old books can be put to use
Community Perspective FAIRBANKS — It’s been said that a good book is like a good friend. If that’s true, then I have a lot more friends than the number that shows up on my Facebook page. Our ba...
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We should share our opinions with state legislators
Community Perspective A recent survey of Alaskans’ opinions on K-12 education produced some interesting results. For instance, three of every four people who participated say they pay “a lot of...
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