Matt Buxton

Wes have real, serious and important work to be done. But instead, we find ourselves wasting time while our very foundations are undermined.

Court documents in a lawsuit filed by Joe Miller show the Fairbanks North Star Borough was seeking information the former U.S. Senate candidate fought to keep secret before he accepted $5,000 to end the lawsuit this week.

The senior military officer in Alaska says that after Eielson Air Force Base's squadron of F-16s moves to Anchorage, the base will continue to serve a purpose. But how many of its roughly 1,800 active-duty personnel will move to Anchorage is unknown.

The federal office in charge of smoothing out permits for a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope now has to function with a greatly reduced budget.

Salvation Army's bell ringers typically fill their red kettles with handfuls of spare change and a few crumpled bills but on Friday, just two days before Christmas, they found an early surprise in their midst -- 10 one-ounce silver bars.

Ice Alaska says it's still on track to hold its first ice art show at its new home, even though a $1.5 million state grant is held up while the borough and Ice Alaska work out due diligence on the organization's 25-acre site.

Animal Control officer Travis Trexler has captured stray dogs, reunited owners with lost pets, worked with dangerous animals and wrangled the occasional runaway pig.

Officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were joined by Alaska Sen. Mark Begich on Wednesday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at a new $11.7-million satellite monitoring facility outside Fairbanks.