KUAC - Fairbanks

Fairbanks residents, Alaska Native leaders and families of the missing gathered over the weekend for a vigil to increase awareness about an unusually high number of local missing persons, including several Native people. The outdoor vigil offered families of the missing an opportunity to share their stories, thank those who are aiding the ongoing search…

Golden Valley Electric Association is studying a proposal by a Fairbanks developer who wants to build a new facility that would bring more wind power to the city and surrounding areas.

Kleckner and other local mushers started the Second Chance League, a nonprofit focused on finding homes for sled dogs turned in at the shelter.

Alaska’s volunteers will join some 25,000 other Guard members from other states for the 58th presidential inauguration, which is scheduled to begin at noon Wednesday.

The new relief bill expands eligibility for the loans to include nonprofits, live venues and cultural institutions that have been struggling due to pandemic-forced closures.

Dr. Anne Zink says the state’s vaccine allocation committee is looking at three principals — logistics, science and equity — to get the vaccine out quickly, effectively and fairly.

A UAF study found that arctic ground squirrels’ bodies transform existing nutrients into resources that can be used to build back tissue that atrophies during hibernation.

Both scholarly and affable, Terrence Cole was a beloved and respected professor at UAF, where he taught for 30 years and penned key works about Alaska.

Other pharmaceutical companies may get approval in 2021, and Alaska will get vaccine doses from them as they become available.

Donated dog food is making its way to some Yukon River communities where poor salmon runs have left mushers without fish to feed their teams.