Capital Anchorage sees 80-degree weather with nearly 120 fires blazing across the state

The state has just had its warmest spring on record, causing permafrost to thaw and dramatically reshaping some areas

Abnormally high temperatures have led to unsafe travel conditions, uncertain ecological futures and even multiple deaths

The Chugach people of southern Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula have picked berries for generations. Tart blueberries and sweet, raspberry-like salmonberries — an Alaska favorite — are baked into pies and boiled into jams. But in the summer of 2009, the bushes stayed brown and the berries never came. For three more years, harvests failed. “It hit the communities very hard,” says Nathan Lojewski, the forestry manager for Chugachmiut, a nonprofit tribal consortium for seven villages in the Chugach region.

Nothing completely prepares a rookie for mushing a thousand miles across Alaska in the dead of winter. But when it comes together—thanks to your dogs, your friends, and your own hard work—it's magic.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy is sticking to his stand that Alaska residents should get a full payout from the state's oil-wealth fund, despite the state budget deficit. Now residents are learning what cuts it will take to pay their full dividend,...

Radioactive contamination from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant hit by a tsunami in 2011 has drifted as far north as waters off a remote Alaska island in the Bering Strait, scientists said on Wednesday

Despite what dentists keep telling us about the protective effects of fluoride on people's teeth, virulent myths insisting otherwise somehow manage to persist.

Years of debate followed the 1964 Good Friday earthquake. This time, we reaped the benefit.

More than small 190 earthquakes have hit parts of Alaska since Friday, when a 7.0-magnitude tremor knocked out power, ripped open roads and splintered buildings near Anchorage.

Climate change has enabled the recent expansion of beavers into northwestern Alaska, a trend that could have major ecological consequences for the region in the coming decades.

A hunter is fighting for life after a bear he shot tumbled down a slope and landed on him. Alaska state police said William McCormick, 28, was also struck by a rock dislodged by the bear as it fell on Saturday afternoon. He was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Anchorage, where he was in a critical condition.

A woman in Alaska charged with murdering her two children almost two years apart searched the internet for ways to kill -- and get away with it -- before calling for medical help for her baby daughter, police in Fairbanks said. Stephany Lafountain called Fairbanks emergency services in November 2017, saying her 13-month-old child was not breathing. An hour earlier, police say, her internet searches had included "ways to suffocate," "ways to kill human with no proof," and "How to: Commit the Perfect Murder."

You can get to gorgeous Lake Clark National Park and Preserve only by boat or plane. That’s kept the hordes away.

This is probably what a climate tipping point looks like—and we're past it.

He was the best alpinist of his generation, a quiet, unassuming Canadian known for bold ascents of some of the world’s most iconic peaks. Four months ago, at the age of 25, he traveled to Alaska to join climber Ryan Johnson for a first ascent outside Juneau. They never came back, and a frantic nine-day search left more questions than answers.

A nonprofit that advocates for the civil rights of Muslims filed a lawsuit against the Alaska Department of Corrections in federal court this week, saying inmates at the Anchorage jail observing Ramadan are being given dangerously meager meals, including being served bologna sandwiches containing pork. The DOC says the bologna was made of turkey and the department is making every effort to accommodate the religious practices of Muslim prisoners.

Arctic people have been communicating with cetaceans for centuries. The rest of the world is finally listening in

A small city in remote Alaska is working to reduce contamination from the nearby Red Dog Mine.

Ancohrage police were called to an apartment near the University of Alaska last Friday after a group of roomates got into a fight involving their fists, a knife and a replica Master Sword.