Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

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• Lawmakers move bill honoring Susan Butcher

  JUNEAU—A bill honoring champion dog musher Susan Butcher was passed out of the Senate State Affairs Committee on Thursday after moving testimony from Butcher’s husband and longtime friends. [more]

• Interior - Alaska in brief

  Pollution warning dropped

  Public officials have canceled an air pollution advisory from earlier this week. The change came following a turn in the weather, with a thin blanket of unexpected snowfall sweeping the air clean Wednesday night. [more]

• Palin appoints Tok, Palmer residents to Board of Game

  Gov. Sarah Palin appointed two new members to the state Board of Game on Wednesday, replacing the only Native representative on the seven-person board that establishes hunting and trapping regulations for Alaska. [more]

• City wins contract ruling

  The city of Fairbanks has won another legal challenge linked to controversial budget cuts made four years ago. The win is the city’s seventh straight victory in the issue. [more]

• Fairbanks leaders invited to Denali Borough meeting
• Public Safety Report
• Candidates target Alaska in caucus
• Body found in house destroyed by blaze
• Man arrested in connection with Cleary Summit lodge fire
• Alaska Greenhouse and Nursery Conference teaches how to search for, create garden trends
• Murkowski: Reports of gas line involvement were exaggerated
• Air pollution at an unhealthy level