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Kris Capps

Kris Capps

Community Editor & Columnist at Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

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Automobiles and aviation combine at new transportation museum

A new transportation museum will open in Fairbanks in 2025 honoring Alaska’s unique automobile and aviation history.
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BCDC 50th anniversary gala funds new technology

Everyone was a winner at the Breast Cancer Detection Center’s annual fundraising gala Saturday, especially the women who will use the center’s services in the future.
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City's newest event space, 8 Star Event Center, debuts Nov. 1

The new 8 Star Event Center, a performing space and convention center, will officially open in Fairbanks on Nov. 1.
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Students reflect on Boreal Echoes, exhibit that mixes art and science

The Boreal Echoes exhibit at the Bear Gallery tells the story of the boreal forest through the eyes of 13 visual artists. It is the result of collaborating scientists sharing
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Gwich'in fiddler Trimble Gilbert receives national arts award

Gwich’in fiddler Trimble Gilbert of Arctic Village will be in Washington D.C. on Wednesday to receive the nation’s highest honor in folk and traditional arts — the National Endowment of
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Fairbanksans make strides against breast cancer

Deanna Miles wore a pink skirt and a pink feather boa and showed off her bald head, covered in colorful glitter, on Saturday.
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Librarians await updated news on restoring grant funding

Librarians are cautiously optimistic after being notified that libraries in Alaska will receive full funding of the annual Public Library Assistance Library (PLA) Grant from the state, despite a surprise
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Pioneer women of Denali share memories of early Denali days

In 1958, Ede Reisland and her husband Jack left Cleveland to come teach school in the territory of Alaska — just for one year, they thought. Of course that stretched
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Indigenous Film Festival debuts tonight

The Sundance Indigenous Film Tour debuts tonight at 6 p.m. in the Lee H. Salisbury Theatre at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Fine Arts Complex.
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Christmas in July Toy Run benefits Santa's Helpers

Not even cold and rain could stop 15 motorcyclists from the annual 90-mile Christmas in July Toy Run last month.
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Art and science merge at climate art exhibition

DENALI PARK — Imagine if scientific data could be shared not with a graph or a long list of numbers, but with colorful fiber art.
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Christmas comes early in Denali

It was Christmas Eve in Denali on Saturday, Aug. 24.
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Interfaith mini-grants promote food security

A mini-grant to Zion Lutheran Church’s community garden was partly responsible this season for a tenfold increase in harvest and a donation of more than 1,000 pounds of food to
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Denali Park Road bus/truck crash sends two people to hospital in Fa...

Two people were transported to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital after being pulled from a truck that collided with a bus on the Denali Park Road at the end of the day
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Author Tricia Brown presents the 'story behind the story' of Irene ...

Former Fairbanksan Tricia Brown turned a long-ago newspaper feature story into a four-year-long project. The result is the book “Irene Sherman: The Making of the Queen of Fairbanks.”
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In search of your wild Alaska music stories

Remember the time it started snowing in May and nobody left the music festival? How about the time you saw people dancing on the bar and crowdsurfing to bluegrass? What
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Jump Start Music Camp gives students an intro to middle school music

Choosing a musical instrument is a serious decision for students going into sixth-grade. At last week’s Jump Start Music Camp, the choice determined how they spent the next five days.
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Hospital launches fundraising campaign for PET Scanner

A PET Scanner in Fairbanks would not only provide detailed diagnoses and help save lives, it would help patients stay close to home rather than traveling to Anchorage or out
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Literacy — and cucumbers — are favorites at Kids Literacy Farmers M...

The focuses on literacy for children between the ages of pre-kindergarten and sixth grade. Nearly 40 vendors hosted booths with clever literacy-related activities for kids.
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At the Kids Literacy Farmers Market, fresh lessons in kindness and ...

The literacy event, happening for the fourth year, is 3-6 p.m. Tuesday at Weeks Field Community Park, adjacent to the Noel Wien Library.
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Northern Nifties is a purple camper full of creativity

The big purple and white camper is full of creations by Alaska artisans.