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Bog blueberries are a favorite of Alaskans and grizzly bears, but the fact that some people across the Atlantic have long avoided them was a puzzle to Zuzana Vaneková.

“When I was in Anchorage last week,” Olivia Hill said, “all I could think about was I couldn’t wait to get to Fairbanks.”

For those who watch and identify birds in the Fairbanks area, spring 2023 proved to be late and slow in several regards, but it also brought some great sightings.

The Alaska Energy Authority has recommended that the state provide more than $25 million to help develop 27 proposed renewable-energy projects around the state. They include a Golden Valley Electric Association request for funding for meteorological studies around Murphy Dome, where a developer is considering building a large-scale wind farm.

The stories cover the mundane to the miraculous, but all of them express something interesting about what it means to live in the Last Frontier.