Salcha News

A Salcha man is serving an eight-year prison sentence for threatening to drag his girlfriend into a bonfire.

FAIRBANKS a ' Two community meetings are planned next week to discuss local wildfire plans and planned fuel breaks in the area.

The Public Safety Report is compiled from criminal complaints filed in state and federal courts, as well as some police blotter information, trooper dispatches, fire department reports and interviews with public safety officials.

The Public Safety Report is compiled from criminal complaints filed in state and federal courts, as well as some police blotter information, trooper dispatches, fire department reports and interviews with public safety officials.

The Alaska Railroad plans to begin work next summer on a $120 million plan to build the longest bridge in Alaska.

An ice jam on the Tanana River has caused some minor flooding in Salcha. Rob Weathers of Salcha Fire and Rescue said the department started getting calls Saturday night but no homes or roads were flooded.

Detailed election returns show mayoral candidates Luke Hopkins and Tammie Wilson collected their greatest support Tuesday from different ends of the borough.

FAIRBANKS a ' The man whose truck tumbled off an embankment on the Parks Highway near Ester remains in serious condition nearly a week after the accident.

The other day at lunch, I listened to two business people talking about where the state is going.

During the past 16 months, I have wondered if a non-politician could be elected mayor, even in a nonpartisan race.

FAIRBANKS a ' This October, voters will be asked to approve an $11.95 million bond for major maintenance projects at two high schools and three elementary schools in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District.

This is the wrong time to cut live trees if you plan to burn them this winter, but people do it anyway.

It's hard to believe it was barely a year ago when the Legislature voted to suspend the state's eight-cent-per-gallon tax on gasoline.

The dog days of dip netting are upon us. Dip-netters at Chitina are still having good success scooping salmon out of the Copper River, but the season is winding down, Mark Hem of Hem Charters in Chitina said by cell phone on Wednesday.

A woman who held two bank employees at gunpoint this spring pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to six months in jail.

There will be no state winter hunt for Fortymile caribou because hunters killed too many animals this fall along the Steese and Taylor highways, even though the season in both areas closed after only three days.

An early frost hopscotched across the Tanana Valley destroying unprotected garden produce and flowers wherever it touched down Wednesday morning.

A colorful, commemorative Alaska statehood quilt touring the state during Alaska's 50th anniversary year is on display in the Bear Gallery at the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts in Pioneer Park.

A colorful, commemorative Alaska statehood quilt touring the state during Alaska's 50th anniversary year is on display in the Bear Gallery at the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts in Pioneer Park.

The Fairbanks North Star Borough is expected to soon receive more than $750,000 to improve public transportation.