The Associated General Contractors says Alaska could face a construction worker shortage and the organization is backing initiatives to train more workers.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A Web site is taking some of the guesswork out of when to make a Thermos of hot coffee, throw on a scarf and venture out into the cold night to take in the northern lights -- even if you're far away from the aurora epicenter in Alaska.
The construction industry in Alaska is booming and Fairbanks is getting its fair share of the action. But those familiar with the industry say there won’t be enough Alaska workers to fill the need in the coming years.
A first-of-its kind analysis of fifty years of remotely sensed imagery from the 1950s to 2002 shows a dramatic reduction in the size and number of more than 10,000 ponds in Alaska .
Former Fairbanks resident William Barton Fuller, 74, passed away Sunday, Oct. 8, 2006, after a courageous battle with cancer, at his home in Hamilton, Mont.
A Fairbanks man bulldozed his way through four long-term forest research projects as he cut a trail to property on the Tanana River, state officials said. The damage may ruin the University of Alaska Fairbanks research projects that have been ongoing for more than 20 years.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (BP)--Alaska Baptists celebrated their 61st annual meeting by emphasizing evangelism and expressing support for members of the military deployed to the Middle East from their state.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, October 13, 2006 (ENS) - The size and number of Alaska's arctic ponds have fallen dramatically in the past half century, according to a study of fifty years of remotely sense imagery.
Washington, Oct 13: A University of Alaska, Fairbanks, study has said that the shrinking of water bodies in Alaska is making that state warmer and dryer.
A first-of-its kind analysis of fifty years of remotely sensed imagery from the 1950s to 2002 shows a dramatic reduction in the size and number of more than 10,000 ponds in Alaska. The analysis, by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists and published this week in the Journal of Geophysical Research, indicates that these landscape-level changes in arctic ponds are associated with recent climate