Sam Friedman

Among the Fairbanks Paddlers members, the late Jimmy Gaydos was known for his handmade boats. He brought a different hand-made boat each year to the club’s wooden boat rendezvous.

The park service can’t do anything to physically keep bloggers or even guidebooks from publishing GPS coordinates of their trips, but rangers can make a point of systematically asking them not to.

The Borealis Big Bull Derby will work much like Alaska’s halibut and salmon derbies. Hunters can buy a ticket before they go hunting for a chance to win a cash prize if they shoot the moose with the widest rack.

The cookoff happened under a tarp on a rainy Saturday night at the Granite Tors campground near Fairbanks. Here are the top three recipes.

A text message led to the sex abuse investigation and arrest of a former Fairbanks trooper captain last week.

A jungle of stuffed monkeys, several in bright colors, looks down on the classroom of Kelly Andaloro from the top of a bookshelf. Andaloro doesn't study primates. Her classes deal with addiction, and the monkeys are a good metaphor for drug addiction -- the monkey on your back.

The criminal charges against him are false but they might be God's punishment for being too prideful, Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox wrote in a letter from jail that is being circulated among Cox's friends and supporters in anticipation of a sentencing hearing later this year.

The Fairbanks rapper known as Alaska Redd has been crafting beats and rhythms in the Interior for more than 15 years. Redd bought his first drum machine and synthesizer when this kind of equipment was hard to find. He operated and later downsized a recording studio and he is now in the midst of something he's never done before, a statewide tour.

The footprint of Eielson Air Force Base would look substantially different if plans go through to move the base's F-16 fighter planes to Anchorage.

Fairbanks engineer John J. Keys saw firsthand last fall how Afghanistan is a dangerous assignment while working on a new road in an Afghan village.

The money and the political support will exist to expand the number of village public safety officers to every Alaska village that wants one by 2019, but it has taken time to find qualified candidates for the remote posts.

Fort Wainwright soldiers injured after a roadside bomb explosion three months ago in Afghanistan were reunited at Fairbanks International Airport with the return of Cpl. Leland Arledge.

An Anchorage judge has thrown out the one criminal charge against Rachel A. Barney, a tangential defendant in the Fairbanks militia "241" case.

A North Pole man is missing and presumed dead after he slipped into the Copper River while dipnetting Thursday afternoon.

The U.S. Army marked the deployment of two components of the 16th Combat Aviation Brigade in a ceremony that was unusual because the two units are going to different places.