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A U.S. Air Force airman died over the weekend following a kayaking accident in a section of the Chena River that runs through Fairbanks.
Christian Diaz, of Houston, was killed during a kayaking accident in Fairbanks Alaska, FFD confirmed on Sunday, June 29.
A search team in Alaska has recovered the body a U.S. airman whose kayak overturned Friday evening on the Chena River in Fairbanks. Staff Sgt. Christian Diaz, 24, of the 35th Fighter Generation ...
For more than a century, baseball teams in Fairbanks have played at midnight on the summer solstice, illuminated only by the sun.
US Air Force plans to test small nuclear reactors in Alaska, marking a step forward in energy innovation and military infrastructure.
For the first time ever, parts of Alaska have been under a heat advisory — but you can put an asterisk at the end of that term.
With temperatures rising to around 86 degrees in Fairbanks, residents in Alaska got their first-ever heat advisory.
Here’s why. For the first time, the state known for glaciers, dogsledding and northern lights issued a heat advisory, with temperatures in Fairbanks pushing 86 degrees.
Alaska just hit a climate milestone — its first-ever heat advisory The heat bearing down on central Alaska "could feel like 110" in a state where the sun can shine all day.
For the first time ever, parts of Alaska will be under a heat advisory — but you can put an asterisk at the end of that term.
The National Weather Service issued its first-ever heat advisory in Alaska on Friday. The advisory, a warning to the public of warm weather expected in the Fairbanks area on Sunday, is the first ...