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Legendary musher Rick Mackey passes away
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner· 2 days agoAlaska lost another legendary musher Monday night with the passing of Iditarod and Yukon Quest champion Rick Mackey. Mackey, 71, of Nenana, died of...
Fairbanks men indicted on burglary, theft charges
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner· 4 days agoA Fairbanks grand jury indicted two men Thursday for burglarizing a storage unit and neighboring shop in March.
Rick Mackey, who won 1983 Iditarod race, dead at 71
WSB Radio· 2 days agoMackey, of Nenana, was part of an Alaska mushing dynasty that included his father, Dick Mackey, and his half-brother, Lance Mackey, the Fairbanks
Iditarod champion, NH native Rick Mackey dies after cancer battle
WCSH 6 Portland· 7 hours agoPress Wednesday. Mackey, who died Monday, was 71. The Mackey name is closely tied to the history of...
Kansas man arrested after fleeing to Alaska
WIBW Topeka· 1 day agoA Kansas man was arrested after a brief stand-off with the Fairbanks Criminal Suppression Unit in the Bentley Mall parking lot on May 7....
3 dead after small plane crashes in Tennessee
WBIR-TV Knoxville· 1 day agoLocal Tennessee officials say three people are dead after a small plane crashed on Wednesday in Williamson County.
South Carolina might be able to see the northern lights on the horizon tonight
The Post and Courier· 6 days agoSome parts of South Carolina might be able to catch a glimpse tonight of the aurora borealis, or the...
Alaska lawmakers support push to investigate, document forced assimilation in boarding schools
Alaska Public Radio Network· 3 days agoAlaska lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to support a federal proposal that would investigate and...
Historical exhibit commemorates construction of Haul Road to Alaska’s North Slope
Alaska Beacon via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoFifty years ago, work crews began a rush job to build what was then called the Haul Road, the gravel...
Looking Back — May 15, 2024
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner· 2 days agoFairbanks writer and poet Peggy Shumaker received top honors from the Rasmuson Foundation on Tuesday. The foundation named Shumaker the 2014 Rasmuson Foundation Distinguished ...
