The Latest Breaking News from Alaska

Five hundred years ago, in a mountain-rimmed ocean fjord in southeast Alaska, Tlingit hunters armed with bone-tipped harpoons eased their canoes through chunks of floating ice, stalking seals near Sít Tlein (Hubbard) glacier. They must have glanced nervously up at the glacier’s looming, fractured face, aware that cascades of ice…

Three shootings in three weeks involving police officers in Anchorage, Alaska, have rattled residents and created a fight over transparency

Timothy Hoffman, 58, crashed on the final leg of the memorial ride in Alaska

The father of an Alaska woman killed in a murder-for-hire scheme in 2019 died during a weekend memorial motorcycle ride commemorating the fifth anniversary of her death

So-called “zombie fires” in the peatlands of Alaska, Canada and Siberia disappear from the Earth’s surface and smoulder underground during the winter before coming back to life the following spring.

Park officials say a Malaysian climber likely died of exposure and altitude-related illness as he sheltered in a snow cave at the top of Denali, North America’s tallest mountain in Alaska

Earthquakes — mostly on the West Coast — cost the US around $14.7 billion per year.

Alaska's waterways turning orange due to thawing permafrost releasing toxic metals, highlighting climate crisis impacts.

Even the National Park Service was surprised.