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Programming returns to KUAC, KTOO

Image Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 22 Jan 2026
Create, and World television channels return across Alaska to public broadcasting stations KUAC in Fairbanks and KTOO in Juneau ... .
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KUAC restores broadcast hours, revives programs with KTOO (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

Public Technologies 21 Jan 2026
KUAC restores broadcast hours, revives programs with KTOO ... Photo courtesy of KUAC. KUAC's television transmitter site sits on Ski Boot Hill northwest of Fairbanks ... For more information, visit KUAC's website, kuac.org, or KTOO's website, ktoo.org.
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Hopkins administration to propose reviving tax breaks for new housing construction

Image Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 17 Jan 2026
Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Grier Hopkins’ administration is proposing property tax exemptions for new, multi-family residential construction in hopes of accelerating housing development in the borough ... .
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Camera-wearing grizzlies are showing scientists how they survive in the Arctic

Image Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 16 Jan 2026
An Arctic grizzly bear stomped its way across the Northern Interior this summer, crunching through twigs and grasses as it foraged for berries. A video camera bobbed under the bear’s neck — it was one of a dozen Arctic grizzlies ... .
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KUAC broadcasts preserved in Library of Congress archive (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

Public Technologies 15 Jan 2026
KUAC broadcasts preserved in Library of Congress archive ... KUAC photo by Dandhi'on Hartman. A small sample of KUAC's archived material rests on shelves at the station ... KUAC is a service of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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Ex-Delta Junction-area fire chief pleads guilty to fraud charge

Image Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 11 Jan 2026
The former chief of a Delta Junction-area volunteer fire department pleaded guilty Thursday to defrauding the department of more than $440,000 ... .
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DOT to replace bridge near Healy starting this summer

Image Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 07 Jan 2026
The Alaska Department of Transportation is planning to begin replacing a bridge north of Healy on one of the state’s main highways this summer ... .
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KUAC host Mark Rippy shares community through music

Image Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 21 Dec 2025
In December of 2020, as a long year of social isolation was closing, Lori Neufeld, KUAC FM’s director of programming and production, had an idea. Invite people to email in requests for their favorite songs and have them played on ... .
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Pioneer Park or Alaskaland? Ordinance proposes restoring old name to Fairbanks park

Image Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 18 Dec 2025
Members of the Fairbanks North Star Borough (FNSB) Assembly have drafted an ordinance that would rebrand a historical park in the center of the Golden Heart City. It comes amid a yearslong dispute over Pioneer Park’s name ... .
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Alaskans remember Athabaskan fiddler Bill Stevens for spreading the musical tradition far and wide

Image Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 17 Dec 2025
Celebrated Athabaskan fiddler Bill Stevens raised his bow for his last public performance ever back in 2023 at the Fairbanks Pioneer Home, an assisted living facility ... .
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UA’s ‘Into the Wild’ bus exhibit is still under wraps as the museum searches for ...

Image Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 30 Nov 2025
On a chilly October morning at a storage facility in central Fairbanks, Museum of the North curator Angela Linn pulled a giant tarp off of Bus 142 — a rust-covered green-and-white city bus from the 1940s ... .
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'It’s devastating’: Glennallen hotel burns down; no injuries reported

Image Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 14 Nov 2025
Glennallen’s only hotel burned to the ground Wednesday. Everyone got out of the Caribou Hotel and no injuries were reported. But the chamber of commerce president says it’s a big loss to the community — and for travelers passing through ... .
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Fairbanks food banks and volunteers race to fight hunger amid shutdown SNAP disruptions

Image Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 12 Nov 2025
It was bananas on the ground floor of the Fairbanks Community Food Bank on the afternoon of Nov. 10. A dozen volunteers rapidly unloaded produce, packed boxes and wheeled carts around towering metal shelves ... .
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Military families are anxious about the shutdown. Alaskans are stepping up to help.

Image Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 31 Oct 2025
John Tollerud walked past rows and rows of thoughtfully-organized stuff at the Salvation Army thrift store in Fairbanks ... .
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