Deserted 5-year-old in Venetie carries toddler to neighbor’s home in bitter cold, troopers say
Both children suffered cold-weather injuries in temperatures that dipped to 31 degrees below zero in the village north of Fairbanks.
Online registry in Alaska shows 1,239 missing people since 1960
The online registry is the culmination of nearly three years of gathering and researching cases overseen by police agencies statewide.
Police say Seward homicide victim was lured, beaten
Five Seward residents have been charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder and manslaughter in the Aug. 25 death of Preston Atwood, 21.
BLM to consider expanded drilling in Alaska oil reserve
Two alternatives would allow lease sales on lands in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska previously designated as special conservation areas under the Obama administration.
Arctic in hot water: November sea ice remains minimal in the Chukchi and Bering seas
Instead of thick, years-old ice, researchers are studying waves and how they may pummel the northern Alaska coastline.
State to submit Fairbanks clean-air plan by mid-December
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation will submit a plan to the federal Environmental Protection Agency as part of a lawsuit brought by clean air advocates.
Critics gear up for response to lease sale in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Opponents of oil drilling in America’s largest wildlife refuge have a message for oil drillers and the people who finance them: Don’t become the company known for the demise of America’s polar bears.
Alaska Supreme Court hears youths’ climate change lawsuit
Sixteen Alaska youths in 2017 sued the state, claiming that human-caused greenhouse gas emission leading to climate change is creating long-term, dangerous health effects.
Home sweet volcano: Alaska fur seals thrive on an unlikely island
Why the seals have chosen volatile Bogoslof Island over the dozens of other uninhabited Aleutian islands is a mystery to scientists.
Alaska salmon deaths blamed on record high temperatures
Dead salmon have shown up in river systems throughout Alaska, and the mortalities are probably connected to warm water or low river water levels, said a Fish and Game official.
Fire officials review cause of McKinley wildfire
Alaska wildfire officials are reviewing their initial assessment of the cause of a weekend fire that burned at least 50 structures north of Willow.
Alaska records its warmest month ever in July, and future records are likely
The effects were felt from the Arctic Ocean to the world’s largest temperate rainforest on Alaska’s Panhandle.