Nenana News

Community perspective The second year of a legislative session is a bit like the third period of a hockey game, everyone playing hard for a win, while the clock ticks away.

The Democrat governor accused Republicans who hold a majority in both houses of the Legislature of being more concerned with re-election than with the state's problems.

Try to imagine what it feels like to run a dog sled over 1,100 miles in a race, in blowing snow and sub zero temperatures. Better yet, hear Edmonds' own Jan Steves tell her story of running the 2012 Iditarod on Saturday, June 2, at the Edmonds Theatre, 415 Main St., Edmonds.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The official word from the Nenana Ice Classic is that there was one winning ticket for the popular guessing game in 2012.

Big birthday gift as ice bet hits jackpot http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/World/2012/05/03/Big+birthday+gift+as+ice+bet+hits+jackpot A MAN bested more than 25,000 other entrants in a contest to see who could guess when the ice would give way on the Tanana River in the tiny community of Nenana, about 90 kilometers south of Fairbanks in the US.