Alaska News

The 2013 recipients of the First Lady's Volunteer of the Year Awards were chosen by an executive committee of Alaskan community members.

Volcanologists who monitor eruptions of Alaskan volcanoes are scrambling to cope with US federal budget cuts - even as the Pavlof volcano, 1,000 kilometres southwest of Alaska's biggest city, Anchorage, spouts a towering ash plume that is threatening plane flights.

The 2012 Women of Achievement honorees have been chosen by the YWCA. Our honorees this year are as follows: Ellen Arvold, Owner/President Second Run; Edith Bailey, Retired Captain Public Health Service; Lori Brewer, Owner Sappore Coffee Inc., Caffe D'arte; Doreen Brown, Supervisor, Title VII Education, Anchorage School District; Dr.

Can there be a more suspenseful man-against-nature story than the history of the airplane in Alaska? For 100 years, pilots there have contended with the hazards of mountain flying, the unpredictability of weather, and the vast, wild spaces to be crossed.

Gov. Sean Parnell signed the oil tax reform Senate Bill 21, the More Alaska Production Act, into law during a special meeting of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce at the Dena'ina Center on Tuesday, May 21, 2012.

Entering third year, Fund anticipates $200,000 to support Alaska Native priorities for protecting lands, waters and way of life The Alaska Native Fund, established in 2011 in a partnership between the Alaska Conservation Foundation and an Alaska Native Steering Committee, is an innovative grant program that supports Alaska Native organizations and ... (more)

Special Agent Luis Sanjur, Office of Special Investigations Detachment 632 superintendent, presents an Eagle Eyes Certificate of Appreciation to Jenny Mosley, wife of Tech.

On the door of a kindergarten classroom in Juneau, I saw a sign that read "Graduating Class of 2025." What will 2025 be like? I don't know.

Navy Seaman Cruz Boseman smiles as he walks off the USS Anchorage during the ship's commissioning ceremony Saturday, May 4, at the Port of Anchorage.

Norman "Buddy" Custard of Shell testifies about the events leading up to the grounding of the Kulluk during the first day of the Coast Guard's formal marine casualty investigation being held in the Anchorage Assembly Chambers on Monday, May 20, 2013.

One of Alaska's most active volcanoes, which has been belching ash and spewing lava since last week, has forced regional flight cancellations and dusted some nearby communities with ash, scientists and local officials said on Monday.

The slow-moving disaster being visited on the village of Newtok is a familiar one in Alaska.

Continuing #WGDB's coverage of the beer business , craft brewers from across the country met with 11 Senate Democrats this week, including Mark Begich of Alaska and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin.

A state commission will meet behind closed doors Tuesday in Kenai to decide whether a number of former police officers, troopers and corrections officers should lose their right to wear a badge in Alaska.

Alaska's Pavlof Volcano sent ash and steam skyward Sunday but not enough to raise the aviation threat for international air carriers.

If you're planning on entering the 2013 Arctic Innovation Competition , it wouldn't hurt to take a peek at the inventions that wowed the judges of this chilly contest, so here are the grand prize winners from 2009 to 2012 for extra inspiration: Not only did these extremely durable inflatable snowshoes impress AIC's judges, but they also caught the ... (more)

The past two weeks have been active ones at the State Agency Databases Project .

Four years ago, a disgruntled contractor for opponents of a proposed Pebble mine sold insider emails, donor lists, bank records and other information to the Pebble Partnership for $50,000, an arbitrator found -- setting in motion a chain of upheaval in the epic political war over the huge gold and copper prospect.

The price of gold has been dropping for about a week, but KTUU-TV reports local miners are still enthusiastically teaching the next generation how to pan for gold.

Isolated. Dark. Cold. Combating minus 60-degree days. Your only neighbors are bears, wolves and foxes.