The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Board of Education has once again made the difficult decision to close schools. The closures of Pearl Creek Elementary, Midnight Sun ...

Maisie Thomas, mthomas@newsminer.com Jun 20, 2021 Jun 20, 2021 Updated Jun 23, 2021 The sun made an unexpected appearance for its namesake event — the 2021 Midnight Sun Festival — as early ...

The Board of Education late Tuesday voted to close three of the five schools that the Fairbanks North Star Borough School ...

The days are long from late April to mid-August, especially between late May and late July, when much of Alaska has up to 24 hours of sunlight. June is the peak month for the midnight sun.

Five elementary schools are on the chopping block in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District: Hunter, Midnight Sun, Pearl Creek ... funding dispute, 4 Alaska districts move on without ...

I wish we had. I traded letters with a writer who lived alone in the remote reaches of Alaska, the Land of the Midnight Sun. Poet laureate of Alaska, his letters and a slender volume of essays ...

Travel here in the summer to experience the legendary midnight sun, a phenomenon where the sun ... Must-see attractions here include the University of Alaska Museum of the North, the Georgeson ...

Alaska's famous "midnight sun" brings long, lingering daylight and short nights (solstice is celebrated on June 21 each year), and a full array of blooming gardens and flower beds almost ...