The project, approved by the UA Board of Regents in February 2024, is primarily funded by a $7.4 million anonymous private donation. The planetarium will be located on the west side of the University of Alaska Museum of the North on UAF’s Troth Yeddha’ Campus in Fairbanks. The 5,700-square-foot planetarium is scheduled to open in spring […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Wednesday, a Fairbanks jury returned a guilty verdict against 36-year-old Wesley Cruikshank of Fairbanks for Murder in the Second Degree. The jury acquitted him of Murder in the First Degree. On June 16, 2023, the victim and his girlfriend picked the defendant up from a Fairbanks restaurant and drove him to their […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Friday, a Fairbanks jury returned guilty verdicts against 45-year-old Matthew Myers of Fairbanks for Murder in the Second Degree, Misconduct involving Weapons in the Second Degree, Assault in the Third Degree and Reckless Endangerment. For his convictions, Myers faces a sentence of 15 years to 99 years on the murder charge and a […]
American robins have returned to northern Alaska. A male is now perched above me in a balsam poplar tree on this bench of well-drained land upon which sits the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. The robin sings his complex, familiar song just hours after his return from somewhere farther south. The sound waves from that […]