 01/13/10 Associated Press - January 13, 2010 3:04 PM ET FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - State Rep. Tammie Wilson needs a new gate to comply with Fairbanks Borough code.
01/02/10 2009 was a year of deaths, firsts and lasts. Here's a look back at some highlights. January Jan. 1 Sixty-six New Year's revelers die and more than 200 are injured in a fire at a Bangkok nightclub.
 12/31/09 FAIRBANKS - North Pole police are asking residents to be on the lookout for a light-colored minivan with 50th anniversary Alaska license plates. The van was last seen in the North Pole area and wa...
 12/27/09 The Flint Hills Resources North Pole Refinery is one of two in-state refineries serving Alaska. The other is in Nikiski and owned by Tesoro. Eric Engman/News-Miner
12/27/09 Associated Press - December 27, 2009 4:24 PM ET FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - Volunteers in Alaska's interior have reaped unexpected benefits from the brief cancellation of a popular program where...
 12/27/09 FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Volunteers in Alaskas interior have reaped unexpected benefits from the brief cancellation of a popular program where "elves" answered childrens letters to Santa Claus.Santas Mailbag in the town of North Pole ended the holiday...
 12/27/09 Pilots from the Charleston Air Force Base could soon begin flying over the North Pole to reach the Afghanistan war zone. And if the order comes, one flyer says it won't be that hard to do.
 12/26/09 Each Christmas season we hear the stories of the eight tiny, flying reindeer that pull Santa's sleigh all over the world in one night. But what made Santa choose reindeer to help him accomplish this feat?
 12/22/09 Jake Henry was glad that Santa Claus was not mad at him. The day before, the 3-year-old had snubbed the jolly old elf after waiting in line to see him.
12/21/09 As a student at North Pole Middle School, Kaleb Yates answered letters to Santa Claus as have thousands of other middle school students in the Christmas-themed town since the 1980s. What makes Yat...
 12/21/09 As a student at North Pole Middle School, Kaleb Yates answered letters to Santa Claus. What makes Yates different is the experience inspired him to make a documentary film "Letters to Santa."
 12/10/09 Want to be Santa's helper? Thousands of children's letters to the big guy are waiting for you at the downtown Oakland Post Office.
12/09/09 Sarah Palin's Op-Ed in Wednesday's Washington Post slamming the Copenhagen climate change summiteers for using "agenda-driven" global warming science has heated up critics' temperatures.
 12/09/09 Source: Reuters * Leading Russian expert reports collapse in numbers * Says bears adapting to changes in the ice * Bears finding refuge on shore face threat from humans By Igor Belyatsky MOSCOW, Dec 9 ( ...
12/09/09 Associated Press - December 9, 2009 12:44 PM ET FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - Mushers in the Yukon Flats struggling to feed their dogs can expect help from some groups in Fairbanks.
 12/09/09 The blizzard that hit Green Bay Tuesday night presented an environmental and logistic challenge for a Packers team with 13 players who have never lived through a Green Bay winter, including 10 rookies, six of whom grew up either south of the Appalachians or west of the Rockies.
12/09/09 It turns out that children who send letters addressed to Santa Claus this year will get a response from the North Pole after all.
 12/09/09 In the autumn of 1916, the Russian Empire, engaged in World War I, founded the city of Romanov-on-the-Murman where the Tuloma River empties into a portion of the Barents Sea that stays ice-free year round.
 11/28/09 Even though there have been some changes to the "North Pole" letter program, children can still receive a letter from Santa.
 11/27/09 The jig is up. I'm pretty sure the kids suspect where Christmas presents really come from: the old man whose belly shakes like a bowl full of jelly -- while he sits on the couch watching the latest South Park episode. (Just kidding, honey!) | 
