Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 19—Lightning, wind and warmth have sparked and fueled dozens of new wildland fires around Alaska, including several near ...

Alaska closed its summer with a wildfire season that was almost exactly normal. In all, 375 fires burned a little over 667,000 acres in Alaska, according to preliminary numbers, according to federal ...

The Goose Fire (#395) is burning in the Yukon Flats in northeast Alaska about 41 miles east of Fort Yukon on Aug. 4, 2022. Smokejumpers are protecting two Native allotments from this and the Belle ...

The Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire Protection has suspended burn permits in two Interior Alaska fire prevention areas, effective Thursday morning, citing elevated wildfire danger driven by dry ...