An article by Fairbanks writer Amy Loeffler will appear in this year’s “Best American Food Writing” anthology.
Interior
A young leader fights for Yukon River salmon, her community — and herself
Every generation of MacKenzie Englishoe’s family has fished on this river. And now it’s her turn, and she can’t.
2 soldiers killed, 12 hurt in military vehicle crash near Salcha
The two soldiers who died were among 17 in a tactical vehicle that crashed on the way to the Army’s Yukon Training Area on Monday morning.
Four years into the Yukon salmon collapse, an Interior Alaska village wonders if it will ever fish again
The river’s once-strong king salmon run has been on a long, slow decline since the 1990s. Chum salmon runs have also been unpredictable. But in the last four years, both species’ runs abruptly crashed.
Yukon Quest Alaska to hold 300-mile sled dog race as rift with Canada continues
The traditional 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race between Fairbanks and Whitehorse has not been held since 2020.
Contractor selected to build nuclear power plant at Eielson Air Force Base
If all goes according to plan, the microreactor will be up and running within five years.
100 million years ago, dinosaurs left clues about how they lived in Interior Alaska
The most common footprints found were from plant-eating dinosaurs that made three-toed prints, but there were also some prints left by a four-toed, armored ankylosaur.
A sewage leak closed the Fairbanks borough building right before property taxes came due
Chief of Staff Jim Williams called Wednesday “one of the weirdest days I’ve been at the borough.”
Dismantling of Fort Greely’s long-mothballed nuclear plant to resume
The plant’s most highly radioactive components were removed after it was shut down in 1972.
2 Tennessee hikers survived 8 days lost in the woods east of Fairbanks
We just seemed like we could not drink enough water,” Jonas Bare said. “We were so thirsty all the time.”