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8750-5495. Website. newsminer.com. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is a morning daily newspaper serving the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, the Fairbanks North Star Borough, the Denali Borough, and the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the farthest north daily in the United States, and one of the farthest north in the world.
Anchorage Daily News – Anchorage; Daily Sitka Sentinel – Sitka; Fairbanks Daily News-Miner – Fairbanks; Juneau Empire – Juneau; Ketchikan Daily News – Ketchikan; Kodiak Daily Mirror – Kodiak; Peninsula Clarion – Kenai
At its peak, the town had a hospital, school, city hall, dance hall, and 3 newspapers. One of the newspapers, The Tanana Miner, later became the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. [4] Chena relied so much on supplying mines and miners that it couldn’t last. The amount of gold in the Tanana Valley declined quickly, so miners left to make money elsewhere.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. "Fairbanks Journeys: Our town, from pipeline days to high-tech ways and beyond", Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Special Section. November 19, 2000. Papp, Josephine E. and Phillips, Josie A. Like a Tree to the Soil: A history of farming in Alaska's Tanana Valley, 1903 to 1940. Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment ...
Alaska. Date apprehended. Died before apprehension. Thomas Richard Bunday (September 28, 1948 – March 15, 1983) was an American serial killer who, from 1979 to 1981, committed a series of murders of young women and girls in the city of Fairbanks, Alaska. At the time of the killings, Bunday was serving at the Eielson Air Force Base near ...
Joseph E. Vogler (April 24, 1913 – c. May 31, 1993) was the founder of the Alaskan Independence Party. He was also chair or gubernatorial nominee during most of the party's existence. He was also known, originally in his adopted hometown of Fairbanks, Alaska, and later statewide, as a frequent participant in governmental and political affairs ...
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is the city's primary newspaper, published daily. In addition, the University of Alaska Fairbanks publishes a weekly student newspaper , The Sun Star . [2]
Alaska was purchased by the United States from the Russian Empire in 1867, with formal transfer occurring on October 18, 1867, [2] which is now celebrated as Alaska Day. Before then, it was known as Russian America or Russian Alaska, controlled by the governors and general managers of the Russian-American Company .