Tanana News

The poor economy, more rural students and fewer dropouts are being credited for an enrollment spike at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The Alaska Rural Action Subcabinet completed its latest round of visits to rural villages this week, stopping into Tanana, Ruby, and Galena on the Yukon River.

Rural Subcabinet Wraps Up Latest Visits Tim Bodony, KIYU a ' Galena The Alaska Rural Action Subcabinet completed its latest round of visits to rural villages this week, stopping into Tanana, Ruby, and Galena on the Yukon River.

Governor Parnell's Rural Action Subcabinet is on the move again. Attorney General Dan Sullivan and other cabinet members flew to Tanana Monday as part of the subcabinet's third tour.

Borough mayoral candidates faced off in a Lincoln-Douglas style formal debate Thursday night in front of a half-filled Borough Assembly chamber.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that more than 2,000 people walked through the door at UAF's Patty Center to peruse an array of firearms ranging from 1860s antiques to the latest competition rifles.

Edited by G. W. Kimura The blurb: More than twenty contributors provide their voice in a selection of essays about Alaska art, culture and humanities in the past, present and future.

Outraged fishermen lashed out at state fishery managers recently, telling them at a House Resources Committee meeting that they mismanaged struggling salmon stocks on the Yukon River at the expense of rural Alaskans.

Concerns about plant and animal invaders in Alaska will bring scientists, experts and citizens' groups together in Ketchikan Oct.

Jesse and I sunk into the couch in Ted and Jackie Suckling's living room. It was gray outside.

The Alaska Congressional Delegation announced the following new contracts and grants on October 2, 2009: U.S. Department of Labor $1,900,000 to Unemployment Insurance Program to make technology upgrades that will improve the operation and security of unemployment insurance systems.

The smell of moose meat, potatoes and cabbage cooked with an onion and some parsley filled our kitchen Monday night.

Mary Rose David on the steps of her new home in Eagle. On September 11, 2009 a small group of people joined hands and bowed their heads in dedication, not to commemorate the events that took place in New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania eight years ago, but to pray after presenting Mary Rose David of Eagle with a new home after spring floods ...

Relatives of a Fairbanks man who recently drowned in the Yukon River said the reason his boat sank remains a mystery.

Alaska Native corporations have formed hundreds of partnerships with non-Native firms in many lines of business, from tourism to mining to government contracting, and have shared some of their experience in making those relationships work.

Success Stories: Where M*A*S*H Meets A'Mush!A' - FEMA & State Public Assistance Programs Meet Critical Facility Challenge with Innovative Solution A Release Date: September 17, 2009 Release Number: FNF-09-051 Tucked along the banks of the Yukon River, the community of Eagle doesn't have a movie theater, hardware store, Sears or McDonalds.

FAIRBANKS a 'A A village public safety officer and volunteer firefighters from Tanana recovered the body Monday of a Fairbanks man who drowned in the Yukon River.

YUKON RIVER: Back problems kept him from escaping, wife says. Published: September 14th, 2009 10:08 PM Last Modified: September 14th, 2009 10:09 PM The DeNardo family of Fairbanks was nearing the final leg of its annual moose-hunting trek down the Yukon River on Saturday when something went wrong.

Alaska State Troopers are investigating a report that one person drowned when a boat capsized Saturday on the Yukon River about 40 miles downriver from Tanana.

All it took was a wet summer for Chris Nield to decide he needed a new career. The 35-year-old Idaho native had worked in masonry since he was 12 years old, learning the brick-and-mortar business and making good money along the way.