KENAI, Alaska – Cook Inlet saw an upswing in oil and gas exploration in 2011 that is bringing a boost to local business. Three independent oil and gas companies are drilling new wells and another …
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Editorial Lots of people like to see their names in the newspaper. Some of them, though, end up in an area of the newspaper where we’re sure they would rather not be: the daily public safety rep…
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Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial The cost of health care in Alaska continues to rise faster than inflation and threatens to exact a crippling blow in the years ahead if the trend continues. T…
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FAIRBANKS — There are several explanations for the wailing emanating from some people in North Korea in the aftermath of the death of Kim Jong Il, says journalist Brad Martin of the University of A…
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Superior Court Judge Sharon Gleason of Anchorage issued a much-anticipated decision today that the trans-Alaska pipeline is worth about 9 times as much as the oil companies contend and there are e…
Fairbanks Sen. Joe Paskvan says the court ruling today in the borough’s pipeline valuation case is a good sign for future oil development in the state. There are 7 billion barrels of already prove…
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Rick Thoman of the National Weather Service reminds us that the News-Miner from 50 years ago today proclaimed the end of one of the coldest cold snaps in history. There were 60 below readings durin…
FAIRBANKS — An Alaska Superior Court judge has increased the taxable value of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline for 2007 through 2009. The decision, released Friday, is another victory for the Fairbank…
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FAIRBANKS — When the door to the Tanana Commercial Company store freezes shut, Cynthia Erickson knows it’s getting cold. On Friday morning, the door was frozen shut. “It was 56 below this morning o…
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FAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks man was sentenced and taken into custody Friday afternoon to begin serving a six-month sentence for choking the mother of his daughter in the parking lot of the Blue Loon th…
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