Alaska

Ryan Redington has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which his grandfather helped co-found.

Supporters say a major oil project President Joe Biden is OK’ing on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope represents an economic lifeline for Indigenous communities while environmentalists say it runs counter to his climate goals.

A second volcano in remote Alaska is experiencing elevated earthquake activity, signaling an increased potential for eruption.

Many communities in the nation’s largest state hit record highs this week, from Kodiak to Deadhorse

The Alaska House of Representatives censured Republican Rep. David Eastman after he argued fatal child abuse is a financial “benefit to society.”

Tracy Hansen of Anchorage, Alaska, was walking her dog when a moose charged at her and kicked her in the head.

A woman in Alaska was walking her dog when a moose charged at her from behind and kicked her in the head.

Officials said the U.S. believes it collected all of that balloon’s debris off the ocean floor, which included key equipment from the payload that could reveal what information it was able to monitor and collect.

Pentagon Spokesperson Brigadier General Patrick S. Ryder says the high-altitude object that was shot down off the coast of Alaska posed a “reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight.”

NSC Coordinator John Kirby says the U.S. shot down a “high-altitude object” flying Alaska airspace on Friday. Kirby said the object was smaller than the spy balloon shot down last week.

The Pentagon shot down an unknown object flying in U.S. airspace off the coast of Alaska on Friday, White House officials said.

The Biden administration has issued a long-awaited study that recommends allowing a major oil development on Alaska’s North Slope.

Officials in Alaska say a mother and her 1-year-old boy were killed by a polar bear this week as she walked about 150 yards from a school to a health clinic.

Alaska State Troopers say a polar bear has attacked and killed two people in a remote western Alaska village.

FEMA documents aimed at helping Alaska Natives apply for disaster relief after typhoon damage last fall was riddled with nonsensical phrases and poor translations.

The Alaska State Trooper say a court services officer with the agency has died after being attacked by a muskox outside his home near Nome.

Alaska’s senior U.S. senator says two Russian Indigenous Siberians were so scared of having to fight the war in Ukraine, they chanced everything to take a small boat across the treacherous Bering Sea to reach American soil.

Two Russians who said they fled the country to avoid compulsory military service have requested asylum in the U.S. after landing on a remote Alaska island in the Bering Sea.

Authorities are making contact with some of the most remote villages in the United States to determine the need for food and water and assess damage from a massive weekend storm that flooded communities dotting Alaska’s vast western coast. No one has been reported injured or killed during the massive storm — the remnants of a typhoon that traveled north...

Flood waters are receding in parts of western Alaska battered by the worst storm in a half century.