2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (92+ words) Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Chase Edstrom of North Pole tipped the scales with his 18.8 pounds salmon, winning him the $10,000 grand prize which Edstrom says he plans to donate to Fairbanks’ youth shelter, The Door. "Let's look back at some of our…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (228+ words) What’s Shaking Alaska?! Welcome to your seismic update from across the state for the week of Sept. 9, brought to you by the Alaska Earthquake Center, where we monitor ground shaking 24-7. Over the past week, we recorded about 700 earthquakes. The largest…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (89+ words) Colorful fireweed Fairbanks Daily News-Miner "Let's look back at some of our history together." - Man charged with first-degree murder of fellow Circle resident - Ore truck hits bison on Alaska Highway; driver injured - An LNG line is still a long way…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (565+ words) Attendees of an educational lichen walk search Birch Hill for the tiny organisms. A pixie lichen, one of about 90 different species that thrive in Alaska. Many species grow over logs and trees. Boreal oakmoss is one of the most common…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (587+ words) Elon Musk says he prefers “a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.” Too many modern vacationers prefer experiencing things through a viewfinder lens rather than drinking in and locking away the moment internally. For example, “some of the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (659+ words) Woolly lousewort blooms tower over shorter tundra plants in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range in Arctic Alaska. Graduate student Jonathan Carcache takes a break next to woolly lousewort and arctic mountain heather while visiting one of his research…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (124+ words) Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Shoppers peruse through an assortment of donated items during the annual Fairbanks Animal Shelter Fund garage sale at the Tanana Valley State Fairgrounds Gasser Hall on Sautrday, Aug. 29, 2026. "Let's look back at some of our history together....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (405+ words) Cook Inlet near Clam Gulch is seen on Oct. 23, 2025. State and industry officials and the U.S. Coast Guard were responding on Tuesday to an unexplained oil spill roughly 60 miles southwest of Anchorage in Southcentral Alaska’s Cook Inlet. The spill, which produced…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (781+ words) TOOLIK LAKE, Alaska — With no tall trees reaching to the sky, Alaska's North Slope tundra can look desolate — especially to outsiders from the Lower 48 who are used to in-your-face greenery. But up close, "the tundra's kind of like the jungle,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1208+ words) Image produced by Nathan Graham This image at 800 magnification shows a mineral called plagioclase from Rod Boyce’s jar of Mount Spurr ash. A clean crystal cleavage surface can be seen at the top, indicating where mineral faces have separated. The…...