Dan Bross, KUAC - Fairbanks
Dan Bross is a reporter at KUAC in Fairbanks.
Population survey shows that Alaska’s wood bison herd is healthy and growing
It’s been another good year for Alaska’s wood bison herd. A recent population survey shows that the Lower Innoko and Yukon Rivers herd is healthy and growing.
Sundance funds film on man’s 2017 killing by Fairbanks law enforcement
Cody Eyre's family is developing the documentary, with help from the Sundance Film Festival, to share who he was and to change how calls for mental health issues are answered.
University of Alaska graduate student employees seek to unionize
The Alaskan Graduate Workers Association would represent 425 academic student employees, about 80% of whom work at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Contractor receives prison time, $172K fine in bribery case at JBER, Eielson
Best Choice Construction LLC owner Ryan Dalbec of Mesa, Ariz., was ordered to serve 42 months in prison, and pay a $172,000 fine and $16,000 in restitution.
Mislabeled photos, newly discovered at UAF, bolster 1910 Denali summit claim
There’s new proof of the success of a pioneering ascent of Denali. Historic photographs from the 1910 Sourdough Expedition were found this fall at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
13 mushers sign up for 2023 Yukon Quest
Defending champion Brent Sass headlines a list of 13 mushers who have signed so far for February's 550-mile main event from Fairbanks to Tok.
Bear encounter north of Fairbanks raises questions about carrying protection in winter
Barrett Flynn says an encounter with a grizzly bear north of Fairbanks on Thanksgiving weekend could have gone worse if Flynn had been alone or his dog wasn’t so well-behaved.
Fairbanks-area tourism company proposes helicopter trips to remote Tolovana Hot Springs
Borealis Basecamp wants to set up a hot tub and landing area on a small BLM plot west of existing cabins and tubs long operated by Tolovana Hot Springs Ltd.
Fairbanks is getting close to demolishing its tallest building: the Polaris Hotel
The city is proposing a two-step approach.
Predator reduction efforts have not increased moose harvests, study says
A new scientific paper on predator reduction efforts in much of Interior and Southcentral Alaska has found they have not increased hunter moose harvest over several decades.
UAF gets federal grant to preserve ‘Into the Wild’ bus
The 1940s-era Fairbanks public transit bus will eventually be displayed outdoors under a shelter at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
‘Programmed to eat’: Northern pike mauls husky at North Pole gravel pit
A North Pole woman is keeping her dogs away from a neighborhood gravel pit after a northern pike attacked and injured one of them last month.
HAARP campaign’s projects range from Jupiter to the moon
The University of Alaska Fairbanks is operating the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program facility, or HAARP, for 13 projects this month.
‘We are working on this’: Troopers get significant tip in 2020 Interior missing-persons case
Troopers Capt. Eric Spitzer says this week's break advances one of four cases of Alaska Native people reported missing in the Fairbanks area two years ago.
A storm is on track to hit a portion of Western Alaska pummeled by last month’s typhoon remnants
The new storm developing in Russia is anticipated to move north of the Siberian Peninsula toward Alaska midweek.
2 people killed in Fairbanks apartment shooting, police say
Police are investigating the shooting as a double homicide.
Young wood bison released to the wild in the western Interior
The 28 yearlings increase the Western Alaska Wood Bison herd to about 160 animals.
‘She wasn’t afraid of adventure’: Alaska author Lael Morgan dies at 86
Morgan led an unconventional life, telling the stories of others, and creating her own.
Four children killed in Fairbanks murder-suicide, troopers say
Troopers say their investigation determined that a 15-year-old boy shot three siblings and then himself.
Power restored to thousands of Interior residents after major windstorm
As of late Wednesday afternoon, Golden Valley Electric Association had restored service to all but about 2,000 of the 30,000 members who lost power.