Communities along a 700-mile (1,127-km) stretch of Alaska’s southern coast ordered residents to higher ground after a powerful offshore earthquake Wednesday, but officials quickly downgraded and then ...

Where the blue H is currently parked, that's a small bubble of warmer air parked over the Alaska peninsula. Typically this happens when you have areas of low pressure on either side of a ridge. You ...

A volcano near Alaska’s largest city is showing new signs of unrest, with experts saying the likelihood of an eruption at Mount Spurr in the next few weeks or months has increased. The Alaska Volcano ...

In the shifting landscape of Alaska’s ice, size is not always what it seems. Last weekend, a column in the Anchorage Daily News declared Malaspina Glacier the largest in Alaska. It’s a claim that ...

Smoke from the Riley Fire blankets mountain slopes near the main entrance of Denali National Park and Preserve on Monday evening. A plane enlisted in the firefighting effort is seen flying over the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Staffing cuts at the National Park Service in Alaska will mean less oversight of wolves, whales, weather and fast-melting glaciers ...

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources is reminding the public that comments on the Public Review Draft of the Northeast Alaska Area Plan are due by Wednesday. The plan outlines how state lands ...

Staffing cuts at the National Park Service in Alaska will mean less oversight of wolves, whales, weather and fast-melting glaciers this summer. The cuts raise questions about the experiences that 3.3 ...