Alaska News

Hampton Academy students felt like they were part of this year's Alaskan Iditarod, even though it was 4,500 miles from home.

Last week, Democratic senators from California, Oregon and Washington wrote to Obama to express concern about the potential effect of the Pebble Mine on their salmon fishing industries and demanding a 'valid, sound science based approach to ensuring that Bristol Bay salmon are safeguarded.'

Red shades over Alaska's interior indicate an unusually strong ridge of high pressure at high altitudes, which promotes sinking air and hot weather.

Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell formally jumped into the 2014 race for U.S. Senate, hoping to take on Democratic incumbent Mark Begich.

A Fairbanks senator plans to introduce legislation that would keep the names of those who sign initiatives and referenda private.

DENALI PARK, Alaska: On Friday, June 21 mountaineer Brian Okonek will speak about Belmore Browne and the 1912 Parker-Browne Expedition on Mt.

Each spring, it seems, the air of Alaska is filled with the buzz of mosquitoes and the whines of people declaring that this is undoubtedly the worst bug season they've ever experienced in their umpteen years in the far north.

It is time for the global maritime industry to push development of Trans Arctic Shipping Routes and port facilities along Alaska's northern coast.

The Department of Environmental Conservation said the gift is from the Hokkaido Development Engineering Center and members of the International Association of Cold Region Development Studies.

Environmental Conservation Commissioner Larry Hartig said in a release that the donation is a symbol of the "deep friendship" between the U.S. and Japan.

"Probably a Rockefeller Republican," he said when asked on CNBC Monday morning whether he was closer to identifying as that or as a Pelosi Democrat.

Pictures of the Aurora Borealis better known as the Northern Lights were the driving factor for us to visit Fairbanks, Alaska.

Seven professors from the University of Alaska Fairbanks are helping establish an engineering school at the new American University of Mongolia.

Poems by local writers Emily Wall and Ernestine Hayes have been selected for permanent placement in Totem Bight State Historical Park in Ketchikan as part of the Alaska Center for the Book's Poems in Place project.

North Muskegon native Chad Brown didn't know what to expect when he attended a job fair at Michigan State University in April of 2012.

Among the notices from performing arts groups around the country received here recently, I spotted a familiar name -- Olga Bell.

Jack London's "To Build a Fire" is one of the rare pieces of fiction set in the Gold Rush that continues to attract readers.

On a small hill surrounded by boggy muskeg in the Tanana River Valley, prehistoric skin scrapers made of schist, polished slate tools and glass beads were uncovered in the last week.

When the brothers grow up, if they chose a life in the sky, 8-year-old Devin Martin would like to fly barrel rolls and backflips; 9-year-old Tyler Treider would just like to fly a plane like the antique AT-6 Harvard warbird they had just climbed down from.

Gov. Sean Parnell has requested a federal disaster declaration for the 2013 spring floods that hit communities like Galena along the Yukon River.