State officials have made the first known detection in Alaska of the small hive beetle, an “economically significant” pest of ...

Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after narrowly finishing in second place three previous years. The ...

A 24-year-old Alaska man has been sentenced for his role in murdering an 80-year-old who had “inflammatory” claims spread about him online. Blaise Dilts has been sentenced to 40 years in jail — with ...

The United States and Canada scrambled multiple aircraft to track Russian military planes flying near Alaska on Wednesday. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said that its aircraft ...

In this Sept. 23, 2024, image taken from video, a U.S. Air Force F-16 operating under the direction of North American Aerospace Defense Command, conducts a routine intercept of a Russian Tu-95 ...

North American Aerospace Defense Command intercepted four Russian aircraft Wednesday in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone, the command announced the following day. NORAD tracked two Tupelov ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly ...

After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly popular online voting ...

Alaska’s Fat Bear Week Kicks off With Online Voting to Crown the Most Oversized Ursine ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska ...

A remote Alaskan town close to the US-Canada border, where every resident lives in the same building, may finally no longer be so cut off from the rest of the world. The town of Whittier, located on ...