The pilots of an Alaska Airlines MD-80 fight desperately for control, as their aircraft careens towards the Pacific ocean with terrifying speed. No matter what they do, they cannot seem to pull their ...

Mexico’s navy is assisting with an offshore patrol vessel and a maritime patrol aircraft, according to the Coast Guard. “The ...

Unlike other freshwater seal populations globally, the seals in Alaska's largest lake have ... but across almost the entire ...

It’s a bird found in Alaska and the Arctic Circle, through the Pacific Northwest and down into Monterey, California. But 10 years ago, warming Pacific Ocean waters led to a massive die-off of ...

Alaska corals form the basis of a rich and diverse undersea ... Flitting among the corals are bright orange, spike-finned rockfish and pink-scaled Pacific Ocean perch. Long-legged golden king crabs ...

The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad in 1923 will for the first time be on permanent display in Alaska after entities combined to win an action for the 14-karat gold spike Fr ...

Scientists believe it could signal significant changes ahead for the Pacific Ocean and our own Bay Area coastline ... A squid species typically seen off our coast was turning up in Alaska, where it's ...

The harbor seals of Alaska’s Iliamna Lake, which make up one of only five freshwater seal populations in the world, have long been a subject of fascination for their separateness from the seals that ...

by Jeremy Harris, KOMO News Reporter TOPICS: SEATTLE — Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the crash of Alaska Airlines 261, a Seattle-bound flight that crashed into the Pacific Ocean.

Around 80 percent of tsunamis occur in the Pacific Ocean because of the extensive tectonic ... The highest reliably recorded tsunami occurred in 1958 in Alaska when a massive landslide fell ...