Emergency officials said the unusually heavy snowfall this winter most likely caused the roof over one side of the building to buckle.

Carol Beecher, who contributed last year to the campaigns of Gov. Mike Dunleavy and U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka, was chosen to lead Alaska’s Division of Elections.

As residents look beyond the dead-for-now Holtan Hills project for other ways to address Girdwood’s housing crisis, solutions won’t be easy, people on all sides seem to agree.

Unions welcomed the news but said higher wages and a pension would have more impact on addressing a recruitment and retention crisis in the public sector.

There is disagreement about the project. Leaders in Nuiqsut, about 36 miles from the Willow project, have expressed concerns. So have environmentalists.

The State Department announced the new position in August after a yearslong push from the Alaska congressional delegation.

New research provides an unprecedented look at how warmer oceans, driven by climate change, are tearing apart Thwaites glacier.

The errant path of the Chinese spy balloon across Alaska, Canada and the Lower 48 may have been caused by unusual weather that pulled it off course.

The crash underscored the perils of the increasingly common journey through Central America toward the United States.