Alaska

A government shutdown could postpone fan-favorite Fat Bear Week, set to begin just days after the funding deadline for Congress.

Peltola was a former Alaska regional director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and worked for years for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola’s office has announced that the congresswoman’s husband died in an airplane crash in Alaska.

President Joe Biden delivered remarks for the 22nd anniversary of 9/11 at a military base in Anchorage, Alaska on the way back to Washington from a trip to India and Vietnam.

Alaska’s Republican governor condemned Biden’s moves and threatened to sue.

You can now refer to Leo the cat as Lucky Leo. He was reunited with his owners in Juneau, Alaska, 26 days after the family’s house fell into the swollen Mendenhall River during a glacial-outburst flood in early August.

A U.S. Army soldier is accused of killing his wife in Alaska after a night out celebrating his 21st birthday.

A U.S. soldier was charged with murdering his wife in Anchorage, Alaska, four days after he reported her missing to police.

A glacial break is causing major flooding in Alaska.

A record number of cruise passengers are expected this year in Alaska’s capital, drawn by wonders such as the long-retreating Mendenhall Glacier. So many people are expected that the city’s immediate concern is how to manage them all.

A proposal last week by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to buy one-way plane tickets out of Alaska’s biggest city for its homeless residents gave Steik a much-needed glimmer of hope. He would move to the relative warmth of Seattle.

An unfunded proposal by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to pay for plane tickets in the winter to warmer climates for homeless people has caused a stir in Alaska’s biggest city.

Authorities in Alaska say search and rescue divers have recovered the bodies of a helicopter pilot and three state scientists whose aircraft went down in a shallow lake last week.

Officials say no survivors have been found after a helicopter carrying four people crashed in a remote Alaska lake.

Troopers said a helmet with a camera attached to it that was confirmed to have belonged to the 43-year-old man was recording on July 11 when his kayak overturned and he went into the water.

The ash cloud had an initial height of about 5.5 miles.

An ongoing eruption of a remote volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands produced an ash cloud so large Tuesday that warnings were sent to pilots about potentially dangerous conditions.

USGS issued a tsunami advisory for most of the Alaska Peninsula

Climate change is opening up the Arctic, and a $600 million-plus expansion will make Nome on Alaska’s western coast the nation’s first deep-water Arctic port.

An Alaska fishing adventure became a nightmare for a family of eight when the wreckage of one of the two boats they’d chartered over the Memorial Day weekend was found partially submerged off an island.