Delta Junction News

The USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service says the project at Clearwater Slough made drainage problems worse rather than better.

Delta Junction librarian and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner restaurant reviewer Joyce McCombs escaped serious injury while on vacation Outside this week.

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There's so much new going on with the Valley-based makers of Permafrost vodka, it's hard to know where to start.

Arctic grayling fishermen on the Chatanika and Salcha rivers who are looking for fish to put in the frying pan will no longer have to carry a measuring tape.

Three men have been charged with hunting offenses stemming from the killing of 12 caribou along the Denali Highway, Alaska State Troopers said today.

Delta Junction smiled on last week's federal approval of a long-discussed railroad track extension between its city and the Railbelt.

Assemblyman Hank Bartos wants to move the railroad out of downtown Fairbanks and expand Pioneer Park into a "winter wonderland" involving Ice Alaska, the railroad's unhappy tenant.

Sen. Mark Begich had this message for members of the Kenai business community: Whatever the issue, he's looking for long term, sustainable solutions rather than a political deal that has to be renegotiated every year.

11, 2000 - Two brief but widespread power outages darkened highway communities from Fairbanks to Cantwell and Delta Junction early Monday evening.

The Public Safety Report is compiled from criminal complaints filed in state and federal courts, as well as some police blotter information, trooper dispatches, fire department reports and interviews with public safety officials.

The Alaska Railroad won approval from the Surface Transportation Board to build an 80-mile northern extension from the town of North Pole, outside Fairbanks, southeast to Delta Junction, an area now served only by road or air.

FAIRBANKS a ' Two teens sustained minor injuries after the school bus they were riding in was rear-ended Tuesday afternoon.

Fairbanks rang in the new year without any major trouble, local law enforcement officers said.

Someone entered the Chevron service station in Tok and made off with $850 in cash and coins sometime after the business closed late Friday.

The Public Safety Report is compiled from criminal complaints filed in state and federal courts, as well as some police blotter information, trooper dispatches, fire department reports and interviews with public safety officials.

Gov. Sean Parnell has chosen a state geologist to take over the job of in-state gas pipeline coordinator, a position that was vacated last month.

29, 1999 - A state senator is threatening legislation to yank the private prison project from Delta Junction because he maintains Delta's city council is dragging its feet on the venture.

AEA publishes draft integrated resource plan for Alaska Railbelt electricity Alan Bailey The Alaska Energy Authority has published a draft regional integrated resource plan that presents options and recommendations for the future of electricity power generation, transmission and demand management in Alaska's Railbelt.

Even on one of the most serious days of his life, Tony Shumate was all laughs. Standing at the door greeting friends, co-workers and fellow soldiers as they filed into Fairbanks City Hall chambers for his formal retirement from the Alaska Army National Guard on Friday, Shumate cracked jokes and yukked it up.