Fairbanks-area tourism for the first half of the summer has been a mixed bag, according to a report from Explore Fairbanks.

A large crowd of well-wishers, friends, and colleagues packed the narrow hallway of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Museum ...

This July marked 80 years since the U.S. government detonated the first atomic bomb in the desert of southern New Mexico, ...

During the mid-1960s the News-Miner did a couple of stories about Athabaskan Elder Paul Solomon and his recollections of ...

Palmer Sen. Shelley Hughes has become the seventh Republican to announce a run for governor in next year’s election. Incumbent Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, is term-limited and cannot seek ...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy allowed three bills to become law this week without his signature, creating two fishing-related laws and one that updates the rules governing accountants in the state.

The poet John Dryden wrote, “Words are but pictures of our thoughts,” and a couple of new ones — pogonotomy and xylarium — recently roused some mental illustrations. A xylarium ...

The state of Alaska has filed an appeal with the U.S. Department of Education after federal officials said the state failed a ...

As a lifelong Alaskan, I’ve seen our state’s heart beat strongest where the land yields its bounty. From the oil fields of ...

The Alaska Bar Association’s board of governors is considering whether to recommend the disbarment of former federal judge ...

News-Miner readers are a photographic bunch. If there’s an image to snap, you’ve snapped it. It’s not just locals who get a ...

After decades of false starts, the Alaska LNG pipeline project is finally gaining real momentum. Permits are secured. A ...