North Pole News

The top Air Force general will be in Fairbanks next week to discuss the transfer of Eielson Air Force Base's F-16 fighter plane squadron, but don't get out your old "Save Eielson" T-shirts just yet.

Interior Freight Dog Association will host a practice pull Saturday Feb. 11th from 12-2 at AK K9 Center in North Pole.

The vote was 18-2, with Republican Sens. John Coghill of North Pole and Fred Dyson of Eagle River dissenting.

New system will lower temperature of oil returned to TAPS but Alyeska says it is already implementing systems to heat oil in line Flint Hills spokesman Jeff Cook has confirmed with Petroleum News that his company has been modifying the North Pole oil refinery near Fairbanks, to recover heat from unused oil that the refinery returns to the ... (more)

Bart Simpson, be advised: Asking people to eat your shorts might trigger an international backlash.

Both parties in a lawsuit about Alaska's plan to redraw House election district lines announced plans Tuesday to appeal a recent Superior Court Decision to the Supreme Court.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska man accused of attempted extortion told Alaska State Troopers he would shut down government and commercial entities and teach "crackheads" to make devices that could be used against police, unless the state cut a deal for him to receive $85,000 to pay his bills, according to court documents.

The Alaska Redistricting Board unanimously voted to appeal part of a Superior Court decision on their plan to redraw House election district lines.

A North Pole man on Friday tried to extort $85,000 from the state of Alaska by threatening to carry out acts of terrorism against several companies and state institutions, according to Alaska State Troopers.

Dear Tom,A friend in North Pole, Alaska, , indicated the temperature was 51 degrees below zero and at the same time a weather observation at nearby Eielson Air Force Base reported light drizzle.

The Flint Hills Refinery at North Pole has started a four-day shutdown to finish a project under which the refinery is removing some of the heat from the 80,000 barrels a day of oil that it returns to the trans-Alaska pipeline.

Temperatures fall to 50 below in Fairbanks; small air carriers cancel flights Daily News-Miner [Fairbanks AK], by Dorothy Chomicz FAIRBANKS - Winter continued to show her love of Interior Alaska by bestowing yet another cold snap on its beleaguered residents this weekend.

Community perspective Harold Heinze, the outgoing CEO of the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority, says that there is an abundance of propane on the North Slope readily available for use.

A North Pole area woman is accused of trying to kick down the door and firing a pistol into the air outside her former boyfriend's house Wednesday night.

A good thing has been a long time coming for Kathy Robinson. She feels 39 at heart, but the 59-year-old has had to fight for that attitude.

With song titles such as "Kodiak," "Hunter," "Wolves," and "Between the Glacier and the Sea," Turbid North's connection to Alaska remains strong, even if the band currently resides in Texas.

The federal case against three Fairbanks militiamen remained intact Tuesday after two days of defense challenges failed to convince a judge that evidence was tainted and charges were inappropriate.

Schaeffer Cox and two of his followers in the Alaska Peacemaker Militia appeared in court on Monday expecting to file more motions to dismiss the charges against them.

Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox and two others are again facing murder conspiracy charges, this time from federal prosecutors who say the three had a plan as far back as 2009 to kill federal officials, including TSA employees, border patrol agents and U.S. Marshals.

At first, Harry Polites thought the man's engine might have been stalling. "His car came through the intersection very slowly, just plugging along," recounted the Lake Forest resident.