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Nanooks Complete the Sweep of Westmont in the Pool with 105-100 Victory
15/01/2024

Nanooks Complete the Sweep of Westmont in the Pool with 105-100 Victory

- The Nanooks swim team completed the sweep of the Westmont Warriors on Saturday, Jan. 13 with a 105-100 win; this is the Nanooks' second-straight dual...

Prep Hoops: West Valley wins Alaska Prep Shootout, improves to 8-0; Jamari Sims MVP
15/01/2024

Prep Hoops: West Valley wins Alaska Prep Shootout, improves to 8-0; Jamari Sims MVP

After losing two all-state studs to graduation, the West Valley boys basketball team figured to be in rebuild mode. Turns out it was just a remodel....

Vikings Rebound With Big Win in Fairbanks
14/01/2024

Vikings Rebound With Big Win in Fairbanks

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – The No. 14 nationally-ranked Western Washington University women's basketball team bounced back in a big way closing out its five-game road trip with...

College Hoops: Seawolves survive in OT, hold off rival Nanooks 64-58 in Fairbanks in 112th all-time meeting
14/01/2024

College Hoops: Seawolves survive in OT, hold off rival Nanooks 64-58 in Fairbanks in 112th all-time meeting

The Seawolves scored on a broken play at the end of overtime to break the hearts of the Nanooks on Saturday night. Dillon Barrientos pumped in...

Men's Hoops Returns Home for Matchups with Northwest Nazarene and Central Washington
14/01/2024

Men's Hoops Returns Home for Matchups with Northwest Nazarene and Central Washington

FAIRBANKS - The Nanooks men's basketball team stays at home for another two-game week. They welcome Northwest Nazarene to town on Thursday, Jan. 11 before matching...

As the permafrost melts, the houses in Nunapitchuk are breaking down
14/01/2024

As the permafrost melts, the houses in Nunapitchuk are breaking down

A large crack runs down the center of James Berlin Sr.’s faded brick-red home. He’s been the mayor of Nunapitchuk for 16 years, and a pillar...

Hockey Welcomes UAA for Fifth Installment of this Season's Alaska Airlines Governor's Cup
14/01/2024

Hockey Welcomes UAA for Fifth Installment of this Season's Alaska Airlines Governor's Cup

FAIRBANKS - The Nanooks hockey team is back after nearly a month away. They host the Alaska Anchorage Seawolves for game five of this season's Alaska...

Senator Murkowski expresses anger over lack of “arctic pay”
14/01/2024

Senator Murkowski expresses anger over lack of “arctic pay”

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) - While an “arctic pay” incentive was added to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023, the Dept. of Defense has not enacted...

Swim Returns Home for Conference Matchup with Westmont
14/01/2024

Swim Returns Home for Conference Matchup with Westmont

FAIRBANKS - The Nanooks swim team returns to the Patty Center Pool for a pair of dual meets with Westmont College. vs. Westmont College | 5:00...

Jenny Di Grappa jumps into Anchorage mayor’s race
14/01/2024

Jenny Di Grappa jumps into Anchorage mayor’s race

Last year, Jenny Di Grappa briefly ran for Anchorage Assembly against midtown incumbent Felix Rivera, but dropped after a few weeks. Now, she has filed to run for Anchorage mayor. She is the chief of philanthropy and community relations at the Food Bank of Alaska. She has worked and volunteered...

Streaking Seawolves host Nanooks Saturday
14/01/2024

Streaking Seawolves host Nanooks Saturday

UAA PROBABLE STARTERS (2023-24 stats) G—Senya Rabouin, 5-5, Jr. (12.8 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 4.8 apg, 1.9 spg, .365 3FG, .806 FT) G—Jazzpher Evans, 5-6, Jr. (11.7...

Conservation group petitions for Alaska king salmon to be listed as an endangered species
13/01/2024

Conservation group petitions for Alaska king salmon to be listed as an endangered species

A Washington-based conservation group filed a petition with federal regulators Wednesday, requesting that they list Alaska king salmon as an endangered species. The Wild Fish Conservancy...

Repeal of ranked-choice voting group turns in 42,000 signatures to Division of Elections to get on ballot
13/01/2024

Repeal of ranked-choice voting group turns in 42,000 signatures to Division of Elections to get on ballot

Alaskans for Honest Elections, which is battling Alaskans for Better Elections, turned in petitions to the Division of Elections today with about 42,000 signatures of Alaskans from every House district in the state. The group said it beat the deadline to turn in the petitions by a month. The Divisio...

Kenai Middle School Creates Bags For Homeless
13/01/2024

Kenai Middle School Creates Bags For Homeless

It takes one good deed to make someone’s day. But for the Kenai Middle Schoolers, they have done enough good deeds to make the day better...

15 GOP-Led States Opt Out Of Federal Food Aid Aimed At Children
13/01/2024

15 GOP-Led States Opt Out Of Federal Food Aid Aimed At Children

The program is set to provide $120 per eligible child to help cover families' food costs through the summer.

BREAKING NEWS: WA group files petition to list AK king salmon as endangered
13/01/2024

BREAKING NEWS: WA group files petition to list AK king salmon as endangered

Targets all Gulf of AK Chinook salmon, writes Nat Herz at Northern Journal. Herz will be updating this breaking news story with comments and statements throughout...

Pulles Takes Third in Freestyle Skate to Help Nanooks Finish Westminster Invitational in Fourth
13/01/2024

Pulles Takes Third in Freestyle Skate to Help Nanooks Finish Westminster Invitational in Fourth

MIDWAY, Utah - The Nanooks Nordic ski team wrapped up the Westminster Invitational in fourth-place with 260 points on Thursday, Jan. 4. They participated in the...

A look at FPD’s 2023 citation data
13/01/2024

A look at FPD’s 2023 citation data

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) - More than any other traffic offense in 2023, officers at the Fairbanks Police Department (FPD) ticketed people for getting behind the wheel...

Third roof collapse in anchorage this winter hits commercial warehouse
13/01/2024

Third roof collapse in anchorage this winter hits commercial warehouse

Yet another roof collapse to add to the growing list in Anchorage. The collapse that happened Monday is the third roof collapse of the winter season....

Nanooks Welcome Simon Fraser and Western Washington to Town to Open 2024
12/01/2024

Nanooks Welcome Simon Fraser and Western Washington to Town to Open 2024

FAIRBANKS - The Nanooks women's basketball team opens up 2024 at home this week with Simon Fraser and Western Washington. vs. Simon Fraser | 7:00 p.m....

Kassie Andrews: ‘Green’ rate case puts Chugach Electric vs. ratepayers and taxpayers
12/01/2024

Kassie Andrews: ‘Green’ rate case puts Chugach Electric vs. ratepayers and taxpayers

With the start of the Alaska legislative session next week, pre-filed bills have trickled in. Legislation for a green bank, renewable portfolio standards, carbon capture utilization and storage, and Cook Inlet gas incentivizes appear imminent this session. Alaska is an oil and gas state. In 2022, na...

The big Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan award chart changes coming in 2024
12/01/2024

The big Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan award chart changes coming in 2024

Some links to products and travel providers on this website will earn Traveling For Miles a commission that helps contribute to the running of the site....

Fairbanks overnight warming center to admit people escaping the cold
12/01/2024

Fairbanks overnight warming center to admit people escaping the cold

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) - A new overnight warming center is in store for the Golden Heart city, propped up by the nonprofit HopeLink. Fairbanks averages lows...

Retiring from the high court, Alaska’s chief justice defends its system of selecting judges
02/02/2023

Retiring from the high court, Alaska’s chief justice defends its system of selecting judges

In his final speech before retirement, Alaska Chief Justice Daniel Winfree firmly defended the state’s merit-based process for picking judges on Wednesday, telling the state’s 60 legislators that he is aware that some of them don’t want apolitical judges, but he believes it’s an important pr...

Alaska education industry wants your PFD, but will our graduates even be able to read their diplomas?
02/02/2023

Alaska education industry wants your PFD, but will our graduates even be able to read their diplomas?

We knew this was coming—the coordinated assault by various special interest groups to increase education funding, and using your PFD to pay for it. The special interest groups believe they know better than you about how to spend your money. The education industry attended the Senate Education Comm...

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