With improved air quality, the FNSB has closed the clean air room at the library, but hopes to expand those services to other ...

Charles Mason/Special to The OregonianNorth Pole's Santa Claus House has a giant St. Nick -- a landmark 43-foot-high Santa weighing 900 pounds -- greeting traffic on Alaska's Richardson Highway.

An ordinance that would lease a large borough-owned tract of land to a North Pole nonprofit goes to a public hearing on ...

You can mail your holiday cards here and your friends will receive them with a postmark from North Pole, Alaska. A lodging option is Hotel North Pole on North Santa Claus Lane (877-488-4801).

North Pole, Alaska — Along the Richardson Highway in the Alaskan interior, “towns” — and that’s being generous — often spring up for a single purpose: to provide food, water and, of ...

The place that became North Pole is part of the traditional lands of the Tanana Athabascan people. In 1944, the area was opened to homesteading, and Con and Nellie Miller were the second couple to ...

North Pole, Alaska, exudes a festive, enchanting atmosphere year-round, but during the Christmas season, the town truly transforms into a magical winter wonderland and is easily one of the most ...

Where is North Pole, Alaska on the map? Click and drag the marker to where you think North Pole, the suburb of Fairbanks, is on this map of Alaska (it’s the crotch of the “x” that appears ...

This Santa Claus is a 73-year-old medical-marijuana-using, Bernie-supporting vegetarian monk who lives at the poverty line, does not drive and thinks — truth be told — that Christmas is a ...

This North Pole, Alaska home is on the market for $725,900. (Empire Realty) The home has an attached two-car garage that opens to a 2,500-square-foot hangar with room for a plane and more.

Loved this little roadside stop sign in the actual town of North Pole, Alaska! It’s located off Richardson Highway 14 miles south of Fairbanks.