The dean of the House says it's time for a 51st state. 

All your classic faves are there when these singers hit the stage Sunday night. 

The air pollution monitor in Fairbanks on A Street in Hamilton Acres also showed an increase in particulate pollution last year compared with 2019, according to the report published Tuesday by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.

A local nonprofit organization, Bridge, received for the second year in a row a $75,000 grant for the Encampment Outreach Program that coordinates service deliveries to people living in encampments around Fairbanks.

Weapons experts testified for both the defense and the prosecution in a teleconferenced hearing.

School principals are the most-vaccinated, the survey finds.

Hunter Elementary School, which was evacuated last week, remains closed. 

Dunleavy told chamber members that Alaska is considering a relief package for hospitality businesses that have experienced economic losses and hardship from the shutdown. 

The senator’s provisions, which are in the Strategic Competition Act of 2021, would establish a position of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Arctic Affairs or other high-level post. Murkowski is a long-time advocate of establishing an Arctic ambassador to guide U.S. foreign policy in the Arctic region, said Karina Borger, communications director for Murkowski.

The state of Alaska is anticipated to receive more than $1 billion. 

The recommendation to pause the vaccine came from the FDA after reports of rare blood clotting. 

" ... both sides must be willing to set aside sacred cows and collaborate for the good of the American people." - Rep. Don Young 

The school board met Saturday and decided next steps after voting unanimously last week to suspend the search for a permanent replacement for Karen Gaborik, who is retiring from the district on July 1 after 26 years.

Last week, the center opened their clinic for the walk-ins, vaccinating 1,197 people total, including about 100 without appointments.

The legislation creates the Alaska Energy Independence Fund to help finance sustainable energy projects.

Since 2013, Noble Paws has worked with Fairbanksans with emotional, intellectual and physical disabilities as well as at risk youth. 

The AFL-CIO Alaska and the University of Alaska voiced support for a bill Alaska lawmakers are considering to offer free or reduced tuition to Alaska's essential workers or people who lost jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recently, Alaskans in Fairbanks and across the state have been receiving scam calls from individuals impersonating representatives from the U.S. Marshals office. Callers tell individuals they have missed federal jury duty and ask for money or personal information in exchange for dropping the warrant.

A letter from various investment groups asks Congress to permanently protect the Bristol Bay watershed by deeming it a federal National Fisheries Area and noting its significance as the world’s largest fishery of wild sockeye salmon.

Sharp reductions in both the state-owned railroad’s passenger and freight businesses led directly to a $7.8 million net loss last year following three years of annual profits in the $20 million range.

Overall, the issues Golden Valley Electrical Association linemen worked on this past snowy weekend were small and isolated, with the largest outage leaving 1,100 members without power, but most of them affecting anywhere from 10 to 60 people, said Meadow Bailey, GVEA’s director of External Affairs and Public Relations.

“We are going to embark on an advertising campaign nationally like we have never seen,” Dunleavy said, “because we have never experienced a year like this.”

A proposal to adopt ranked choice voting in borough elections is also on the books. 

Hunter Elementary could remain closed for the rest of the school year.

The FBI is looking for tips about Chris Heitstuman’s conduct in Alaska cities outside of Anchorage.