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The 72-year-old decrepit structure currently sits half-demolished in downtown Fairbanks.

Interior business owners and checkpoint volunteers are busy readying food and beds for Iditarod teams after race organizers’ last-minute decision to push the starting line north.

About 50 people streamed into the Fairbanks Federal Building on Monday afternoon.

School districts across the country received a letter from the U.S. Department of Education earlier this month, ordering administrators to remove any language or policies that focus on Diversity, Equity or Inclusion, also called DEI. The letter was sent late in the day on Friday, February 14. And it gave administrators two weeks to comply. Now, a day before the deadline, the impacts of the letter are being felt by school districts across Alaska.

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Director Diane Fleeks has assembled a cast of local talent for performances of this "choreopoem" written by Ntozeke Shange.Performances at "The Basement" Feb. 27 through Mar. 2

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A couple dozen Fairbanksans sang songs and rallied on a main street corner Monday in an impromptu marking of the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The case was first filed in 2017.