The Latest Breaking News from Alaska

The brand claims the electric truck will be the lightest and the world’s most sustainable.

In August 1997, Johan Hultin requested permission to exhume a mass grave in Alaska, hoping to find the recipe for the deadliest virus ever known: the 1918 Spanish flu. Scientists routinely engineer viruses, but need nature to create them first. Jeffery Taubenberger wanted to understand why some flu strains caused…

A walrus calf found alone and miles from the ocean on Alaska’s North Slope last week and who received cuddles as part of his care after being rescued has died

CITY GUIDES: Alaska’s largest city is a place to climb mountains and meet local wildlife, says Alan Dymock, with post-adventure refreshments available in 12 different breweries

A local emergency was declared after the Mendenhall River reached record levels due to water originating from a nearby glacier.

The retirement of key senators last year is reflected in the state-by-state distribution of earmarked dollars in fiscal 2024 spending bills.

Residents in Alaska’s capital city have lived with periodic glacial dam outbursts for more than a decade

A helicopter that crashed on Alaska’s North Slope in July, killing three state scientists and the pilot, stopped sending flight-status data to a real-time tracking system as it passed over the southeastern shoreline of an Arctic lake

While little known in US, glacial flooding could threaten about 15 million people around the world, researchers say.