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Alaska lawmakers heard a recurring theme during a legislative task force meeting last week: Public schools need more funding to make up for years of static funding.

It was a game that started on Saturday and ended on Sunday, a World Series contest so packed with the rare, the historic and the dramatic that it ...

Cleary City — was established in the heart of the goldfields north of Fairbanks. It was named after Frank Cleary ...

Old dynamite discovered during a property clean-out in Valdez on Thursday prompted a response from multiple explosive ordnance disposal teams and the temporary evacuation of nearby homes.

The freeze on key federal nutrition programs will put particular pressure on tribal communities, according to advocates and U.S. senators of both parties.

How to Poison a Planet” will be held Thursday at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks, followed by a community discussion about PFAS ...

The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute will hold its annual “All Hands On Deck” conference Nov. 6-8 at the Hilton Hotel in Anchorage, with virtual participation also available.

The annual Community Turkey Shoot has returned to the Fairbanks Fish and Game Indoor Range this year. Participants can shoot the official “Turkey Shoot Target” during normal walk-in public use hours ...

We swim in a sea of symbols: acronyms, emojis, icons of all sorts, etc. As old Confucius declared, “Signs and symbols rule the world, not words or laws.” ...

Nov. 3, 2015 — ANCHORAGE — Woolly mammoths and other large ice age mammals thrived in northern Alaska until environmental changes turned grasslands into peat and rising sea levels submerged the Bering ...

In our work to serve others and in our daily lives, we’ve all faced unexpected challenges, like shifts in funding or sudden ...