Fairbanks is a home rule city and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska and the second largest in the state. The 2020 Census put the population of the city proper at 32,515 and the population of the Fairbanks North Star Borough at 95,655,making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Alaska after Anchorage. The Metropolitan Statistical Area encompasses all of the Fairbanks North Star Borough and is the northernmost Metropolitan Statistical Area in the United States,located 196 miles by road south of the Arctic Circle.
North Pole is a small city in the Fairbanks North Star Borough,Alaska,United States. Incorporated in 1953,it is part of the Fairbanks metropolitan statistical area. As of the 2020 census,the city had a population of 2,243,up from 2,117 in 2010. Despite its name,the city is about 1,700 miles south of Earth's geographic North Pole and 125 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
The Alaska Railroad is a Class II railroad that operates freight and passenger trains in the state of Alaska. The railroad's mainline runs between Seward on the southern coast and Fairbanks,near the center of the state. It passes through Anchorage and Denali National Park,to which 17% of visitors travel by train.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is a morning daily newspaper serving the city of Fairbanks,Alaska,the Fairbanks North Star Borough,the Denali Borough,and the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the farthest north daily in the United States,and one of the farthest north in the world. The oldest continuously operating daily in Alaska,by circulation it is the second-largest daily in the state. It was purchased by the Helen E. Snedden Foundation in 2016. The Snedden family were longtime owners of the News-Miner,selling it to a family trust for Dean Singleton and Richard Scudder,founders of the Media News Group in 1992.
The 2008 United States Senate election in Alaska was held on November 4,2008. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator and former President pro tempore Ted Stevens ran for re-election for an eighth term in the United States Senate. It was one of the ten Senate races that U.S. Senator John Ensign of Nevada,the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee,predicted as being most competitive. The primaries were held on August 26,2008. Stevens was challenged by Democratic candidate Mark Begich,the mayor of Anchorage and son of former U.S. Representative Nick Begich.
David Guttenberg is an American politician serving as a member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly. A member of the Democratic Party,he was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 2003 to 2019,after which his nephew,Grier Hopkins,succeeded him.
Scott Jiu Wo Kawasaki is an American healthcare professional and politician from Alaska. A Democrat,he is a member of the Alaska Senate representing the state's District P,which includes neighborhoods within the city limits of Fairbanks.
Karl W. Kassel is an Independent politician and former Mayor of Fairbanks North Star Borough,Alaska,serving from 2015 to 2018. He is a retired businessman and government administrator.
Tammie Wilson was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives,representing District 3.
The name of the highest mountain in North America became a subject of dispute in 1975,when the Alaska Legislature asked the U.S. federal government to officially change its name from "Mount McKinley" to "Denali". The mountain had been unofficially named Mount McKinley in 1896 by a gold prospector,and officially by the federal government in 1917 to commemorate William McKinley,who was President of the United States from 1897 until his assassination in 1901.
The 2014 United States Senate election in Alaska took place on November 4,2014,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Alaska,concurrently with the election of the governor of Alaska,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The 1972 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska was held on November 7,1972,to elect the United States representative from Alaska's at-large congressional district. Incumbent Democratic Representative Nick Begich went missing shortly before the general election,but still defeated Republican nominee Don Young.
The 2012 Alaska general elections were held on November 6,2012. Primary elections were held on August 28,2012.
The 2014 Alaska gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014,to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Alaska,concurrently with the election of Alaska's Class II U.S. Senate seat,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
James C. Colver is an American politician from Alaska. A Republican,he is a former member of the Alaska House of Representatives,serving House District 9 from 2015 through 2016. He is also a former assemblyman for the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
The 1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election was held on March 6,1973,to elect the United States representative from Alaska's at-large congressional district. Incumbent Democratic Representative Nick Begich had won reelection in 1972,but had gone missing shortly before the election.
The 2022 Alaska gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday November 8,2022,to elect the governor of Alaska. Incumbent Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy won re-election to a second term,becoming the first Republican governor to be re-elected to a second term since Jay Hammond in 1978 and the first governor,regardless of political affiliation,to be re-elected to a second term since Tony Knowles in 1998.
Selwyn George Carrol was an American politician who served as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1972 to 1974.
The November 2022 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska was held on Tuesday,November 8,to elect a member of the United States House of Representatives to represent the state of Alaska. Democratic incumbent Mary Peltola won reelection to a full term in office,defeating Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich III and Libertarian Chris Bye in the runoff count.
The 2022 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election was held on August 16,2022. Democrat Mary Peltola won the open seat,thereby becoming the first of her party to win a U.S. House election in Alaska since 1972. Peltola,who is a Yup'ik woman,is the first Alaska Native elected to Congress,and the first woman elected to represent Alaska in the House. She defeated Republican former governor Sarah Palin in the state's first ranked-choice general election.
