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- Looking Back in Fairbanks - March 14
Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Charles Pengilly determined in a Friday ruling that DOT officials never showed any "concrete intention" to take any portion of the properties for the long-planned Illinois Street expansion project.
- Bison hunters can use radios, cell phones
Bison hunters in Alaska will be allowed to use cell phones, two-way radios and satellite phones to improve their success rate and help reduce damage to crops in the Delta Junction area.
- One hurt in Delta Junction helicopter crash
The Delta Wind reports that the copter was flying across the Delta River from the town Saturday afternoon when it began to lose power and crashed into some trees.
- Tired Iron breathes new life into old snowmachines
A radar speed detector set up on a main drag in downtown Fairbanks on Saturday afternoon recorded drivers flying past at 60 mph and faster, yet no speeding tickets were issued.
- New missile installed at Fort Greely
FAIRBANKS a ' A new missile was installed in a silo at Fort Greely last month, the 22nd interceptor at the Missile Defense Agency site outside Delta Junction.
- Legislature seeks public input on budget
The House Finance Committee is taking public testimony on the state's operating and mental health budgets at 3 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 3, from the communities of Dillingham, Cordova, Sitka, Wrangell and Petersburg.
- Delta Junction woman's blog goes platinum with do-it-yourself furniture plans
In less than four months, stay-at-home mom Ana White's cyber creation - http://knockoffwood.blogspot.com - surpassed one million hits and continues to gain speed daily.
- Looking Back in Fairbanks - Feb. 19
19, 2000 - Delta Junction area schools are facing deep cuts to staff and programs next year under a budget proposed by superintendent Dan Beck.
- Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, due out March 5.
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- Just Back From ... Alaska
Merlyn and Peggy Sovde took the Times along on a three-month sojourn to Alaska. During their June-to-September getaway, they explored Denali National Park, site of Mount McKinley; Anchorage; Fairbanks; Delta Junction; and the Marine Highway from Valdez to Whittier.
- 'Radio Realty' expands to hour-long format
An expanded format and new locations have "Radio Realty" reaching more people, with time to address more issues.
- Alaska Legislature considers making snow tires mandatory
By CHRISTOPHER ESHLEMAN ceshleman@newsminer.com A bill under consideration in the Legislature would require Alaskans to have winter tires on their cars or trucks from mid-December to mid-March, beginning next winter.
- Dog handlers have just as hard a quest as mushers
It's hard to say who had a tougher ride to Dawson City, Yukon Quest musher Kelley Griffin or her dog handler, Jo Ferrari.
- USDA would scrap Delta Junction erosion project
The USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service says the project at Clearwater Slough made drainage problems worse rather than better.
- Delta librarian injured in car-casino crash
Delta Junction librarian and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner restaurant reviewer Joyce McCombs escaped serious injury while on vacation Outside this week.
- Alaska News Nightly: February 3, 2010
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- Vodka producer experiences explosive growth
There's so much new going on with the Valley-based makers of Permafrost vodka, it's hard to know where to start.
- Fish Board nixes grayling size limit
Arctic grayling fishermen on the Chatanika and Salcha rivers who are looking for fish to put in the frying pan will no longer have to carry a measuring tape.
- 3 charged in killing of a dozen caribou
Three men have been charged with hunting offenses stemming from the killing of 12 caribou along the Denali Highway, Alaska State Troopers said today.
City DescriptionDelta Junction is a city in the Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 897. The city is located a short distance south of the confluence of the Delta River with the Tanana River, which is at Big Delta. It is about 160 km (99 miles) south of Fairbanks.
Delta Junction is located at 64°2′52″N 145°43′7″W / 64.04778°N 145.71861°W / 64.04778; -145.71861 (64.047669, -145.718655).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 17.3 square miles (44.7 km²), all of it land.
"Big Delta" lies at the intersection of the Delta River and the Tanana River. The City of Delta Junction sits on the Delta River at the intersection of the Richardson Highway and the famed Alaska Highway (actually, the end of the Alaska Highway). The city and Delta community lie within the fertile Tanana River valley. Three mountain ranges—the White Mountains to the north, the Granite Mountains to the southeast, and the Alaska Range to the southwest—and the Delta River to the west surround the city.
Once overlain by glaciers, the geology is marked by glacial moraines as well as alluvial deposits from ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- United States of America
- Alaska
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Area
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