Salcha News

Detailed election returns show mayoral candidates Luke Hopkins and Tammie Wilson collected their greatest support Tuesday from different ends of the borough.

FAIRBANKS a ' The man whose truck tumbled off an embankment on the Parks Highway near Ester remains in serious condition nearly a week after the accident.

The other day at lunch, I listened to two business people talking about where the state is going.

During the past 16 months, I have wondered if a non-politician could be elected mayor, even in a nonpartisan race.

FAIRBANKS a ' This October, voters will be asked to approve an $11.95 million bond for major maintenance projects at two high schools and three elementary schools in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District.

This is the wrong time to cut live trees if you plan to burn them this winter, but people do it anyway.

It's hard to believe it was barely a year ago when the Legislature voted to suspend the state's eight-cent-per-gallon tax on gasoline.

The dog days of dip netting are upon us. Dip-netters at Chitina are still having good success scooping salmon out of the Copper River, but the season is winding down, Mark Hem of Hem Charters in Chitina said by cell phone on Wednesday.

A woman who held two bank employees at gunpoint this spring pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to six months in jail.

There will be no state winter hunt for Fortymile caribou because hunters killed too many animals this fall along the Steese and Taylor highways, even though the season in both areas closed after only three days.

An early frost hopscotched across the Tanana Valley destroying unprotected garden produce and flowers wherever it touched down Wednesday morning.

A colorful, commemorative Alaska statehood quilt touring the state during Alaska's 50th anniversary year is on display in the Bear Gallery at the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts in Pioneer Park.

A colorful, commemorative Alaska statehood quilt touring the state during Alaska's 50th anniversary year is on display in the Bear Gallery at the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts in Pioneer Park.

The Fairbanks North Star Borough is expected to soon receive more than $750,000 to improve public transportation.

FAIRBANKS a ' A Salcha man is accused of trying to burn down a mana TMs house in retaliation for the homeowner striking his brother with a baseball bat in what Alaska State Troopers called an act of self-defense. Silfiano Lukas, 27, has been charged with attempted arson, a class B felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

When targeting arctic grayling with a fly rod in the Interior, keep in mind that the usual rules need not apply.

Police are asking for the public's help in finding a puppy that was stolen Monday from the parking lot of Regal Cinemas.

The trans-Alaska pipeline has a new device to improve maintenance and corrosion detection.

Anyone who wants to check out the salmon counting operation in the Chena River at Moose Creek Dam is free to do so.

The first king salmon of the season were caught by subsistence fishermen in Nenana on Tuesday, which means some kings should be poking their noses into Chena and Salcha soon.