Amanda Bohman

In the midst of other expansion plans, Alaska-based General Communication Inc. announced a project to improve wireless phone service and expand Internet and cable television access in areas of Fairbanks that are lacking.

Have authorities in Alaska put an innocent person behind bars? The Alaska Innocence Project is screening about 60 cases. The office is only a few years old, and executive director Bill Oberly said he is probably years away from proving wrongful conviction in a criminal case.

Fairbanks Memorial Hospital touted its new $14 million heart center last week with a grand opening and tours of the 12,747-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility.

Small children, their mothers and elders began evacuating the village of Beaver on Friday as the Yukon River rose, tribal leaders said.

Discarded restaurant frying oil, put through a process no more difficult than a high school chemistry experiment, can be used to heat buildings and fuel pickup trucks.