Settlement reached in Fairbanks diocese lawsuit
FAIRBANKS — A settlement between the Fairbanks Catholic Diocese and a creditors committee representing nearly 300 alleged sex abuse victims might be resolved by early next week. Robert Hannon, d...
Tri-Valley School hoops team scores with donation
FAIRBANKS — The Tri-Valley School girls basketball team got a major assist this week when an anonymous donor sent a $3,000 check to the Healy school to cover the cost of the recent theft of the ...
BP donates $1 million to archive former Sen. Ted Stevens' papers
FAIRBANKS — A $1 million donation from BP will allow the University of Alaska Fairbanks to catalog a vast archive of documents from former Sen. Ted Stevens’ four-decade-long political career. St...
FAIRBANKS — Parents brought their children to the first of three swine flu clinics for school-age kids in the Fairbanks North Star Borough on Thursday. Another vaccination clinic is scheduled for T...
The Dec. 7 edition of "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" is to feature a sampling of Fairbanks and North Pole restaurants, such as Big Daddy's, the Cookie Jar and the Pagoda. Guy Fieri's Christmas show for the Food Network was taped here in early October. Gloria Burcell of the C...
•The US Postal Service overreacted with its new plan to require "redacted" Santa letters. Because it would be pointless and expensive to cross out personal information on hundreds of thousands of letters to Santa, this effectively puts an end to a long-established tradition in Fairbanks. ...
UAF and UAA will battle for supremacy in the sustainable world. A sustainable meal is at stake. A UAF press release says: The contest is built around the Sustainability Report Card, which is published by the Sustainable Endowments Institute. The institut...