Donating to charity was among the list of reasons that Air Transport World (ATW) magazine cited Alaska Airlines winning ATWs’ award for service to the public and to its’ communities. ATW’s coveted Joseph S. Murphy Industry Service Award was recently received by Alaska Airlines, marking the company as the only North American carrier honored by ATW on [...]
On January 10, 2012, the Fairbanks AC Subcommittee will conduct a meeting in the main building of Fish and Game located at 1300 College Road at 6PM. The meeting that was previously set at the Farmhouse located in the same address was moved to the main building to give a much bigger space for the [...]
The Blood Bank of Alaska says that January is “Donor Appreciation Month”, and asks that you donate at least four times this year and become a donor who gives the gift of life. The blood bank in Fairbanks provided the posters that are hung up around Nenana so that area residents will know that donations [...]
Meet the newest Vice President of Business Development of the Alaska Railroad Corporation (ARRC), as of January 3, 2012, Dale Wade. From now on, Mr. Wade will assume the responsibility of handling all business transactions and activities of the ARRC which will include marketing, promotion, sales, pricing, product design and implementation of freight and passenger services [...]
Anchorage lawyer Jim Gottstein started “The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights”, PsychRights® an Alaska non-profit, in 2002. The attorney has come to the legal rescue of people diagnosed with mental illness from abuses. The abuses this attorney at law referrs to are those where “unwarranted court ordered psychiatric drugging requiring people diagnosed with mental illness [...]
Santa Claus, Gold Rush the tv show, tragedy strikes a local business, a huge storm along the coast, air fares, a snowmachine race, and another reality series about Alaska were the biggest hits with our readers. Our first article about NORAD and Santa Claus got 3,038 viewers interested in following the Santa Claus route as [...]
The New Years Eve celebration at Chena Hot Springs promises to be as great as in past years, with a New Years Eve fireworks show that lasts almost thirty minutes, and in the restaurant, live music, and then, toast with champagne at midnight. If you haven’t been to “Chena” as it’s sometimes referred to, in [...]
“You know what they say about ‘checking your list twice’ …? Well, turns out we made our list, but we didn’t check it twice. In light of this fact, we ask that you please disregard the Constituent Fare email we sent you earlier today,” Alaska Airlines says in one of its emails earlier today. The [...]
The Fairbanks Branch of Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. has announced that there will be live coverage on Thursday, December 15, from 3 to 5 p.m. EST that concerns their company. The respect that our company has in our industry is shown by the fact that CNBC is going to feature us, Vonna Husby says. Our concern [...]
The Iditarod Challenge One of the greatest challenges of man’s abilities has always been the Iditarod. Men such as Rick Swenson from Two River, Alaska, the only five time winner, and the only musher to have entered 20 Iditarod races and never finish out of the top ten; and women like Libby Riddles, the first woman [...]
