Tanana News

In 1967, Neal Brown and George Cresswell built a raft and traveled from Fairbanks to Nenana, a journey that provided the inspiration for the rite of passage known as The Great Tanana Raft Classic.

Today's combined efforts of eleven ground teams and four aircraft failed to yield any new clues on the location of missing backpackers Abby Flantz and Erica Nelson.

The Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council is a coalition of 66 tribes and First Nations in Alaska and Canada united in protecting the Yukon River, the fourth-largest drainage basin in North America.

July is the heart of summer, and that means it's fair time. I can remember the hot, sticky evenings in North Dakota when the place to be was our county fair.

The pattern held true at the local women's shelter on this Saturday in October 1997.

' Even though subsistence fishermen on the Yukon River have been restricted from catching king salmon, it's open season for personal-use and sport fishermen on the Chena and Salcha rivers in Fairbanks, at least ...

The purpose of the Amendment is to reassess plan classifications and guidelines that determine which state lands may be conveyable to the Denali Borough.

LOCATION: In the heart of the Interior, on the banks of the Chena River in the Tanana Valley, 358 road miles north of Anchorage.

The Los Angeles Times has an exhaustive article out of Tanana on the impacts of global warming showing up on Yukon River salmon.

With a sickening thud, another hefty and handsome salmon lands in the waste barrel, headed for the dogs.

It's midnight on a cool July evening, and I'm careening through Skagway's Goldrush Cemetery, trying to find con man Soapy Smith's grave before darkness swallows me up.

A deputy U.S. marshal killed in the line of duty 87 years ago was honored by fellow Masons with a ceremony in Fairbanks.

Don Kashevaroff, who is involved in several leadership entities of Alaska Native medical services, will succeed Paul Sherry beginning June 1 as chief executive officer of the Alaska Native Tribal Health ...

Photo by John Wagner Photo by John Wagner Photo by John Wagner Nenana resident Robert Ketzler saw Sunday as a chance to remember his grandfather, who died on the Tanana River.

“I'm never going to get out of the dog house”

Ice jams caused flooding along two interior Alaska rivers and an Army helicopter participated in two rescues. via Alaska Journal of Commerce

“We had to have a laser card rushed to us from Ohio or Utah or someplace.”

JACKPOT: Organizers hope to complete ticket check today. Published: May 13th, 2008 12:16 AM Last Modified: May 13th, 2008 12:55 AM A modern-day problem is delaying the resolution of one of Alaska's oldest ... via Anchorage Daily News

“We anticipate these to be very costly disasters on a national and international scale, so we are reaching out to Alaskans who want to help their neighbors throughout the country and throughout the world during this very devastating time”

The disasters abroad are prompting Alaskans to open their hearts and their pocketbooks. via KTVA Anchorage

“They are probably aware, and are probably waiting for a phone call.”

As of 10:53 p.m. Tuesday, at least 1 person hit the jackpot Published: May 8th, 2008 12:01 AM Last Modified: May 8th, 2008 12:35 AM Is it you? Did you choose 10:53 p.m. Tuesday as the time the Tanana River ice ... via Anchorage Daily News

“There's still a lot of ice in the Tanana that needs to come down”

Jim Stone and his wife, Ann, were sitting at their kitchen table eating ice cream cones Sunday night when he saw the water coming. via Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

“The water level is rising and subsiding, depending on each half hour. "The ice jams move for a while, the water backs up for a while and pools up where the ice jams are stuck and then the ice moves again”

Borough officials continued to monitor the flooding situations at Salcha on Tuesday as a result of ice jams in the Tanana River but had little new to report as of early Tuesday evening, according to Jennifer ... via Fairbanks Daily News-Miner