Fairbanks-area tourism for the first half of the summer has been a mixed bag, according to a report from Explore Fairbanks.

This July marked 80 years since the U.S. government detonated the first atomic bomb in the desert of southern New Mexico, ...

A large crowd of well-wishers, friends, and colleagues packed the narrow hallway of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Museum ...

During the mid-1960s the News-Miner did a couple of stories about Athabaskan Elder Paul Solomon and his recollections of ...

Palmer Sen. Shelley Hughes has become the seventh Republican to announce a run for governor in next year’s election. Incumbent Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, is term-limited and cannot seek ...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy allowed three bills to become law this week without his signature, creating two fishing-related laws and one that updates the rules governing accountants in the state.

The poet John Dryden wrote, “Words are but pictures of our thoughts,” and a couple of new ones — pogonotomy and xylarium — recently roused some mental illustrations. A xylarium ...