A team of University of Alaska Fairbanks engineers has joined a four-year, $6 million National Science Foundation project that will test whether microbes and artificial intelligence can recover rare earth elements from coal waste.
Alaska’s push for a second high-voltage line linking the two ends of the Railbelt got a $150 million federal boost this week.
The Fairbanks Fiber Festival begins today for its 11th year and runs through Sunday, Oct. 11, at the Alaskaland Centennial Center.
Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have completed a 1,000-kilometer drone test flight to see if human blood stays stable in transit.
A second online auction for lots in the Fairbanks North Star Borough’s West Chatanika River Recreation Subdivision began Oct. 2 and runs through 5 p.m. Nov. 1.
The Alaska Federation of Natives will gather in Anchorage this month for its 60th Annual Convention, running Oct. 22-24 at the Dena’ina Center under the theme “Rooted in Land and Tradition, Rising in Our Voices.”
For nearly a third of Alaskans, Medicaid isn’t an abstraction. It’s how they see a doctor. State health data shows 199,576 Alaskans enrolled in the program.
U.S. consumer confidence dropped sharply in September, falling to its lowest level in 12 years as rising fuel prices weighed on household outlooks nationwide — a trend likely to hit especially close to home for Interior Alaska families heading into another expensive heating season.
A newly combined Fairbanks museum bringing together vintage cars and historic aircraft under one roof continues to expand its displays following a soft opening at the end of July.
Alaska drivers are paying some of the highest gas prices in the country.
Advocates in Alaska’s Interior warned a proposed gold mine on the Johnson Tract in Lake Clark National Park threatens critical habitat ecosystems and a large chunk of the state’s economy.
Fairbanks is closing out one of its soggiest Septembers in more than a century, with rainfall totals climbing past 279% of the monthly average and a flood watch still in effect for the Chena River Basin through the weekend. A storm system pulling moisture up from a Pacific hurricane broke a 101-year-old daily rainfall record on Sept. 15, dropping 0.46 inches and edging out the previous mark of 0.42 inches set back in 1925.