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Explore Fairbanks Releases 2021 Visitors Guide Spotlighting the Northern Lights, Midnight Sun and Winter Season Share Article The Fairbanks 2021 Official Visitors Guide that showcases Fairbanks' year-round opportunities is now available for free. The aurora borealis, the midnight sun and Denali National Park, are among popular regional attractions featured in the guide. This year's guide also includes information on traveling in the time of COVID-19 with advice on how you can explore the area responsibly. Explore Fairbanks 2021 Official Visitors Guide Known as the "Golden Heart of Alaska," Fa...

Fairbanks neighborhood hosts ‘Christmas Light Competition’ Sarah Dubowski © Provided by Fairbanks KTVF Michelle Trickey Littell and her family spent hours setting up their home for the competition. FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) -If you are looking for something fun, safe and family friendly to do this holiday break, take a drive through the Taku and Westgate neighborhood. The area, sometimes referred to as “Riverview” hosted a Christmas Light Competition. Participating residents decorated their house with holiday spirit, then a picture was taken of their home and posted ...

Have you ever fantasized about Christmastime lasting all year? In North Pole, Alaska, it sort of does. The small city just outside Fairbanks is best known for the Santa Claus House, a local tourist attraction and store with a 42-foot Santa Claus statue outside. North Pole has embraced its Christmas reputation, giving streets names like Santa Claus Way, electing a white-bearded man named Santa Claus to the city council and answering hundreds of thousands of letters from children each year. Santa Claus House in North Pole, Alaska (iStock) There’s more to North Pole than holidays. And despite ...

Inspiring Girls Expeditions invites applications for its summer 2021, tuition-free, wilderness science education programs. The expeditions are open to 16- and 17-year-old girls. Alaskans are encouraged to apply, and expeditions target minoritized youth who may have experienced barriers accessing science- and outdoor-focused programs. Participants are selected through a competitive application process focusing on passion for science, art and the outdoors, rather than academic grades or past achievements. The program is run through the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center at the University ...

If any year needed to disappear with the dark, it’s 2020. A pandemic, a tumultuous election that some Americans don’t believe was legit, murder hornets, the death of RBG, riots and protests, the death of Kobe Bryant, monkeys escaping a lab with COVID-19 samples, West Coast wildfires, a possible supervolcano hanging out under the Aleutian Islands — yep, this year hasn’t exactly been stellar. (If you had “Undiscovered Aleutian Islands Supervolcano” on your bingo card, congratulations.) That’s why 2020 needs to go. It’s been a dark year for much of the wor...