University of Alaska Fairbanks News

The NCAA Division II Membership Committee has accepted the application of Concordia University-Portland to join the NCAA, paving the way for Concordia's full-time membership in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference .

This July 2014 image provided by NOAA shows NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region Marine Mammal Stranding Coordinator Aleria Jensen, right, measuring the length of a female humpback whale while University of Alaska Fairbanks marine biology graduate student Suzie Teerlink holds the other end of the line during a necropsy near Funter Bay, Alaska.

A Fairbanks bridge over the Chena River is closing Friday to allow workers to repair a nearby sinkhole.

The US Air Force has given the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program facility in Gakona, Alaska, a death row reprieve of sorts.

One's a former Republican legislator who pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy in 2011 as part of the FBI's investigation of Alaska political corruption.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony near the base of the new NASA antenna within the Alaska Satellite Facility marked the official beginning for the Near Earth Network asset.

The Air Force has agreed to delay its plans to demolish a $300 million research facility near Glennallen to allow more time to work out a deal to transfer ownership to the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.

Geophysicists don't know what caused a sinkhole measuring about 80 feet deep to appear in a Fairbanks resident's yard last week.

When a breeding wolf dies, its sex and the size of its pack can determine whether that pack continues, according to research.

The semi-finalists of the Alaska International Piano-e-Competition pose on the stage of Charles Davis Concert Hall at UAF.

A 21-year-old Fairbanks man suspected of entering the women's locker room at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has been charged with misdemeanor "indecent viewing."

A boardwalk that serves as a popular shortcut in Bethel has been closed since May, and its future is uncertain.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has released a list of budget cuts to be implemented during the new fiscal year.

In the history, or timeline, of any university there are mileposts that dot the progress of that institution over the years and Austin Peay State University is no different.

A trove of more than 100 of the leaked Wikileaks diplomatic cables in 2010 provides an unvarnished view of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan's career at the U.S. Department of State, where he spent two-and-a-half years holding high-level meetings on oil and gas, climate change, and a host of other issues, even lobbying a head of state ... (more)

The Alaska International Piano-e-Competition got underway at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on Saturday as 22 competitors drew lots to determine the order in which they would compete.

Both have extensive experience with Alaska Native organizations. Mayo has been the chief administrative officers at the Tanana Chiefs Conference, and Peter has worked with Native groups and was the coordinator for UAF's Yukon Flats Center.

In the mid-20th century, when Carl Benson was traveling Greenland gathering data he would use to write his Ph.D. thesis on the temperature, structure and composition of the hard-packed snow that covers that island, conditions deep beneath the surface were fairly consistent: white, firm, cold and dry.

Carolyn Robinson, owner of the Anchorage production company Sprocketheads, has worked in some form on most major production in Alaska A group of about two dozen people read an excerpt from the 2012 blockbuster Zero Dark Thirty at Anchorage's BP Energy Center.

A battle brewing in Canada over changing the name of the Edmonton Eskimos football team -- a spinoff from the recent debate over the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins -- seems not to have reached across the border to Alaska, where the term Eskimo is still widely accepted by Alaska Natives and remains a point of pride for some.