Last Thursday, December 1st, the EPA released their Recommended Determination, Pursuant to Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act for the Pebble Deposit Area in Southwest Alaska, prohibiting and restricting the use of certain waters to discharge and deposit dredged or fill materials associated with mining activities.

Now, with the release of the Recommended Determination, the EPA Office of Water has 60 days to affirm, modify, or revoke the decision. 

On Sunday, November 23rd, our Nanooks split their series with the Mavericks after losing 3-2 in a close battle on the ice. Omaha was able to cinch their second win of the season on a power play in overtime. Although they may not regret scoring a game-winning goal, there's a good chance they regret celebrating it in front of the Alaska bench.

The UAF community is introduced to its up-and-coming writers at The Pub’s First Year MFA Reading. With a variety of writers from all over the country (and further), the range of content is not one to miss.

On October 21st, 2022, The Sun Star held its official (re) Launch Party, where staff, columnists, journalists, friends from KSUA, and interested students came together to witness the official re-launching of the Paper (digitally, of course). After a two year hiatus, the room buzzed as the ribbon was cut and the website (that you are currently on) went live.

Highlights from Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra’s Season Opener and Pre-concert Lecture from Eduard Silberkant.

Indie-rock band Bad Bad Hats played The Pub at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Wood Center on October 15, 2022. The band's sound is a smooth mix of punk and pop with fun and often abstract lyrics.

Perhaps a prudent way to introduce this report is to give a brief overview of the governing structure of UAF and the UA system as a whole. The program has seen a massive interest since its conception, and the university –in partnership with the school board– is looking to expand the program to make it available to more students.

At 12:01 AM on November 1, armed only with their wits, a ridiculous deadline, and sometimes the vague outline of a story, more than 425,000 people around the world will set out to become novelists. Would you like to be one of them? November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, the world’s largest writing challenge.

UAF’s Outdoor Adventures (OA) welcomed students with the Fall Wildness Welcome Orientation Trip, where students spent four days climbing, hiking, and canoeing in the Eastern Alaska Range.

In the communion of this year’s Starvation Gulch, just one pyre-night shy of its centennial, the burgeoning atmosphere among the clustering crowds is tenuous yet voracious, one of tentative rapture, with a cloud of uncertainty hanging above underclassmen, grad students, event staff, campus firefighters, and the present Fairbanks community alike.