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The sky is the limit for kids on Fairbanks Aviation Day
FAIRBANKS — An up and coming crop of future pilots took to the air under sunny blue skies Saturday during Fairbanks Aviation Day at Fairbanks International Airport. An enthusiastic Ryan Schmidt, 1...
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Contractor sues Fred Meyer for failed remodel
FAIRBANKS — A general contractor that was fired from a disastrous remodeling project at the West Fairbanks Fred Meyer store has sued the company for more than $5 million, claiming it was victimized...
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Red ribbons with messages written on them hang from a tree in memory of lost loved ones during the annual Fairbanks Heart Walk in Veteran s Memorial Park downtown Saturday morning, May 19, 2012. Eric Engman/News-Miner
Fairbanks Heart Walk surpasses expectations
FAIRBANKS — Under the warm morning sun Saturday, people released their grips on dozens of red and white balloons. As they floated higher and higher, tails whipping in the breeze, more than a few te...
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First year Hutchison High School English teacher Alysa Loring monitors the hallway in between classes on the last day of school Friday morning, May 18, 2012. Eric Engman/News-Miner
First-year Fairbanks teachers survive the school year
FAIRBANKS — The students bent over their final exams in concentration, scattered around the classroom in the few remaining desks. The other desks were stacked along the wall next to the piles of un...
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Looking back in Fairbanks — May 20
10 YEARS AGO May 20, 2002 — Old buildings may not talk, but they can leave clues. Sunday afternoon a section of the New York Times, dated Sept. 15, 1929, was found sticking out of a log round in ...
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Denali Highway open for the season
FAIRBANKS — The Denali Highway is open. The 135-mile road connecting the Parks and Richardson highways opened for the season Tuesday, according to Meadow Bailey, public information officer for the...
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Team of soldiers climbing Mount McKinley
FAIRBANKS — A team of six soldiers from the Northern Warfare Training Center at Fort Wainwright began climbing Mount McKinley Thursday. The group is broken into two, three-man teams led by Maj. Ga...
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Man riding bike allegedly assaulted, robbed
FAIRBANKS — A man riding a bicycle early Thursday morning behind the Fairbanks police station was beaten up and had his bicycle stolen by a man, a woman and a teenage boy, according to Fairbanks po...
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Helen Snedden, wife of C.W. Snedden and Fairbanks local philanthropist, dies at 96
FAIRBANKS — Throughout her long, active life Helen Snedden, 96, never drew attention to herself. Described by friends as a “brilliant” but very private person, she was content to walk in the shadow...
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Driver of truck whose passengers were injured in wreck charged with assault
FAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks man who was injured when he rolled a pickup truck last summer at Harding Lake has now been indicted on felony assault charges. A Fairbanks grand jury handed up an indictmen...
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Fairbanks basking in 24-hour civil twilight
FAIRBANKS — You may not have noticed — unless you’ve neglected to put up the bedroom window shades — but it no longer gets dark in Fairbanks. Tuesday marked the first day of the year when there w...
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Alaska river guide pleads guilty to smuggling fossil
FAIRBANKS — Well-known Alaska river guide of Anchorage pleaded guilty Friday to helping a wealthy client smuggle a 10,000-year-old woolly mammoth fossil out of Alaska almost five years ago. The tri...
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Fairbanks to see partial solar eclipse
FAIRBANKS - In the middle of a typical sunny Fairbanks summer day on Sunday, May 20, a huge shadow will fall across the sky as a partial solar eclipse travels over the region. Eclipses occur when ...
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Kelly, Bishop enter state Senate race
FAIRBANKS - Campaigns for this fall’s elections have made a slow start in the Interior, given uncertainty about new district boundaries, but two more big names have entered the races. Former Fair...
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Sgt. Stephen Jackel keeps stride with a prosthetic leg as injured soldiers from the 1/25th Stryker Brigade Combat Team make their way from Monterey Lake Memorial Park towards Ladd Airfield during the Wounded Warriors Memorial Walk Thursday morning, May 16, 2012 on Fort Wainwright. Eric Engman/News-Miner
Memorial walk in Fairbanks honors injured soldiers
FAIRBANKS - Slowly but steadily, the soldiers came. Some swung by on crutches, while others progressed step-by-careful-step on prosthetic legs. One young man, missing both legs and an arm, gripped...
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