Dorothy Chomicz

Alaska winters are long, dark and cold and the coming of summer is greeted with relief and delight. However, that delight is tempered by the arrival of another sign of summer -- the mosquito.

Opponents of a proposed road to Ambler have banded together to voice their opposition and launch a website dedicated to highlighting their concerns with the project.

Dogs and cats, but also chickens, parakeets, ferrets, rats, goats, turtles and lizards were found abandoned at waste transfer stations in the Fairbanks area last year. In a place that sees extreme cold, such treatment can cross the line from being simply callous to willfully cruel.

It's bright orange, can turn on a dime, and it whizzes up and down the sidewalks of Fairbanks at a brisk pace. Steve Carter, the self-titled "snow ninja" who drives the city's latest addition to its snow removal fleet, said that passersby often point and stare at the big man in the little machine as he goes about his job.

University of Alaska Fairbanks students are putting their ideals to the test this week as they camp out and stand in the cold to combat homelessness.

A house for women who are living sober that opened its doors a little more than a year ago may have to close because of financial reasons.

Conventional wisdom might advise that a person would have to be either foolish or brave to break into a beehive, but that is just what someone did recently at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.