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Gov. Bill Walker, left, former U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, center, and former state Sen. Mike Dunleavy, right, are running for governor. Walker and Begich criticized Dunleavy for not attending four candidate forums or speaking events.
Alaska's economy should pick up given an increase in military spending and pro-energy policies of the Trump administration, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said. Acosta toured areas of Interior Alaska with Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan on Sunday, stopping in spots in Fairbanks and King Salmon, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported .
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, left, U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta, and state Sen. Click Bishop hold a news conference Sunday at the Fairbanks Pipeline Training Center.
Legislators are under fire for per diem costs again as figures have been released showing the state has paid almost $400,000 for living costs since the start of the first regular session on Jan. 17. During the first four-month session, nearly all state lawmakers took the same amount of per diem, between $213 to $295 per day, costing $30,949 between ... (more)
High-level officials from the ... . A few hundred people chanted slogans and made speeches to protest the presence of U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Wednesday, May 10, 2017.
High-level officials from the world's eight Arctic natio... . U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, seated right, and U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, seated left, speak with representatives of Alaska Native groups at an Arctic Council event in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Ambassador Kislyak, are in Fairbanks, Alaska for an Arctic summit. The U.S., Russia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway are taking part.
The secretary of state is in Fairbanks for a meeting with the world's eight Arctic nations amid concerns about the future of the sensitive region after President Donald Trump called for more oil drilling and development. Rex Tillerson landed on Wednesday afternoon and immediately held a meeting with a congressional delegation as well as Arctic representatives from Alaska's indigenous people.
The first construction starts this spring in what's expected to be half a billion dollars' worth of work to get Eielson Air Force Base ready for its new F-35 fighter jets.
Dec. 11, 2006 - KENAI - Fifth-graders at Mountain View Elementary School in Kenai used music as a vehicle to take fellow students and parents on a journey across North America's American Indian cultures recently.
In the wild, when musk ox are threatened, adults circle around the young calves, horns facing outward to meet danger head on. Head-on collision could be a metaphor for the so-called Musk Ox Coalition, a group of House Republican majority legislators which broke from majority leaders last year when they voted against using Permanent Fund earnings reserves to balance the state budget.
At the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport last winter, as passengers streamed off the flight from Fairbanks, one man turned around and walked toward me.
When legislators return to work this week, the major remaining piece of legislation on the agenda is a bill that would, for the first time since it was created nearly 40 years ago, use the Alaska Permanent Fund to pay for state government.
The original AFN president and a former Congressional staffer will be the two keynotes speakers when the largest gathering of Native people in the United States holds its annual convention in Fairbanks this fall.
Denali Borough School District Superintendent Dan Polta and students Victoria Saxe and Halle Venehuck are happy to accept a $20,000 donation to the school district from Holland America Lines.