Patrick Gilchrist

Shelley led the historically small field of six mushers for most of the race, with little pressure from other teams during the last few hundred miles.

Josi Shelley now holds a big lead over Jonah Bacon, who took over 2nd place when Deeter dropped out.

As the race moves onto the Yukon River, lows are forecast to be around minus-50.

Police say Adayus Robertson, 24, is accused of shooting Joseph Casas, 37, in the head at a Fairbanks apartment last week.

Mount Spurr is teetering toward a possible eruption nearly 300 miles south of Fairbanks. Despite that distance, officials at Alaska’s second busiest airport are keeping a close eye on the developing situation.

The agreement means the case will not go to a jury for trial, which was scheduled for this December.

Tribal leaders cited a need for unity Thursday amid looming federal spending cuts, two years after the conference left AFN over support for subsistence salmon.

One elementary school is set to close in each of the Fairbanks North Star Borough's southeast, northeast, west, North Pole and central Fairbanks regions.

Along with gallium and germanium, antimony is one of three minerals that China recently said it would stop exporting to the United States.

How low can you go, really? That’s one question Alaska researchers are asking of a new grant-funded heat pump prototype this winter.