Exploring life at the 64th parallel... and beyond.

Fairbanks Real Estate buyers are discovering now is a great time to get into the market. Now that the leaves are turning green and the sun is out in full force, many buyers are coming out of hibernation and thinking of real estate. Fairbanks - North Pole - Salcha - Fox - Two Rivers College - Este...

Fairbanks homes sales for April 2008 show an upward trend in movement in both the number of homes sold and the average sales price. The good news is the market is moving up. The bad news is that it didn't really have anywhere to go BUT up. Home sales in Fairbanks struggled through most of last ye...

There are moments I long for days gone by. A time when the country and world were different. More civil. More respectful of the gifts God gave us. When I was a boy it seemed the world really understood the word respect. Your parents drilled it into you day after day. You showed respect to your pa...

I'm not sure when it happened.  I'm not even sure how it happened, but it did.  Sometime between 10PM last night and 8AM this morning I went through the change.  You know the one where you wake up with different... um... equipment than you went to bed with.  This morning I discovered that, thanks...

I've heard the April showers bring may flowers bit all my life. Without the rains there would be no bountiful floral harvest to enjoy. How sad would that be, I ask you? Pretty sad indeed. I just have one little itty bitty question. If April showers do indeed bring May flowers, does it matter if t...

Your one stop for real estate and community news for Fairbanks and Interior Alaska brought to you by Jesse and Kathy Clifton, your local Fairbanks real estate experts. Fairbanks Alaska new construction homes for sale. Brand new homes finished and ready for occupancy. New construction homes in Fai...

North Pole, Alaska homes for sale. Conveniently located near Fort Wainwright and Eielson Air Force Base. Prices for new construction homes in North Pole are approximately 6% lower today than the 2007 average. Now is a great time to take advantage of the lower home prices and builder incentives. C...

Do you work for free? If you were to ask me that I would instinctively say no, I don't. Kathy is expensive and I have toys to pay for - not to mention two mortgages, car payments, insurance, retirement funding, etc, etc. However, the truth of the matter is that sometimes I do work for free. That ...

As is appropriate we have national holidays dedicated to those brave men and women in uniform who have faithfully served our country. They have willingly sacrificed so that our very way of life would continue. They fought wars to defend and promote democracy and to defeat tyranny and oppression....

In this case it is easy being green. According to the National Safety Council approximately 41 million computers became outdated in 2004 and 63 million in 2005. That number was expected to reach upwards of 500 million in 2007. Research shows that 75% of outdated, unused computers are stored and ...