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In Fairbanks, Interior Secretary Burgum touts deregulation and data centers
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum spent Wednesday evening in Fairbanks, after campaigning with President Trump in Wasilla earlier this week. Burgum spoke at a Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce event, where he touted Alaska's potential for artificial intelligence data centers. He held up a project in his home state of North Dakota as an example.
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Interior secretary pitches Fairbanks amid regional power emergency
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTUU) - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum visited Fairbanks Wednesday, addressing attendees at the 8 Star Event Center and pitching the Interior as a location for large-scale AI data centers and foreign energy investment. The visit came days after Golden Valley Electric declared a Level 2...
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Morgan Dulian comes in as new Fairbanks Chief of Staff
Starting Monday, Morgan Dulian will serve as Chief of Staff for the City of Fairbanks, replacing Mike Sanders.
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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to speak at events in Fairbanks and Girdwood
U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is making two stops in Alaska this week, with appearances planned in Fairbanks and Girdwood. Burgum is expected at the 8 Star Events Center in Fairbanks on Wednesday. According to the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, the event will honor the men and women who work...
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UAA’s Army ROTC program
UAA’s Army Reserves Officer Training Corps, or Army ROTC, began its college program in partnership with UAF in 2009. UAA’s unit of Cadre and Cadets is commonly known as the Seawolf. The ROTC trains cadets to become commissioned officers by providing them with field experience and classes to...
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Alaska Takes Flight: The Future of Drone Technology at UAF
Join us to learn how research and innovation happening right here in Fairbanks is helping shape the future of drone and counter-drone technology for Alaska and the nation. Drone technology has become a major focus around the world, particularly as current conflicts in Ukraine and Iran continue to demonstrate both the opportunities and risks associated with unmanned aircraft systems.
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NASA administrator visits UAF, spotlights Alaska’s strategic role in future space missions
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTUU/KTVF) - Alaska is poised to play an expanding role in the nation’s return to the moon and the rapid commercial growth of space exploration, according to top federal and state leaders who gathered Monday at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Speaking before students, researchers, and faculty...
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JD Vance holds rally in Fairbanks as the state faces two toss-up races
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTUU/KTVF) - Vice President JD Vance visited the 49th State Monday evening, the first visit by the administration as Republicans face two toss-up races in Alaska: the U.S. Senate race and the race for governor. President Donald Trump also said he will visit Alaska 30 days before Election...
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Fairbanks hosts first statewide Filipino leadership convening
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTUU/KTVF) - Filipino American leaders from across Alaska gathered in Fairbanks this weekend for the state’s first Alaska Filipino Leadership Convening, an event organizers say was created to strengthen connections between Filipino organizations statewide. The two-day initiative, called “Lifting Filipino Voices: Strengthening Community Connections,” was hosted by...
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State challenges psychiatric report of Fairbanks man charged with killing grandmother
A Fairbanks judge on Friday scheduled an evidentiary hearing to decide the mental competency of a 29-year-old man charged with murdering his elderly grandmother, after prosecutors challenged a state psychiatric evaluation concluding he cannot be restored to competency.
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Military data centers are sparking opposition, but local leaders may be powerless to stop them
Salcha, Alaska resident Sarah Hollister often walks a neighborhood trail that leads to a pond outside Eielson Air Force Base. It's part of a military recreation area — civilians and servicemembers alike come here to hike and fish. It's not unusual for military aircraft to fly overhead, momentarily interrupting the natual tranquility.
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Data centers in Alaska: Fairbanks leaders weigh in on controversial issue
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTUU/KTVF) - Candidates running for seats on the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly have weighed in on whether they support the building of data centers in the borough. The issue garnered attention earlier this year, when the U.S. Department of Defense announced potential data centers housing artificial intelligence...
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Fairbanks opens region's first commercial-scale in-vessel composting facility
Fairbanks has launched the region's first commercial-scale, in-vessel composting facility. The new facility officially opened Friday with a ribbon cutting at Golden Heart Waste Management. The project was made possible through more than 217-thousand dollars in USDA funding awarded to the Fairbanks Soil and Water Conservation District. The facility uses...
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Stick with voting machines, ignore the society of tinfoil hats
Voting machines are more accurate at tabulating results than relying on tired election workers to count thousands of ballots by hand. There is no real argument about this. But Barbara Haney and Tammie Wilson, followers of Trumpism, are claiming that we need to abandon voting machines in Fairbanks and rely on temporary workers to count everything by hand on Election Day, all because they don’t trust the machines.