President Donald Trump issued an executive order recently changing the name of the mountain known as Denali to Mount McKinley ...

Genetic modification is the only credible path to restoring the blight-wracked American chestnut. Bruce Beehler is a ...

Here’s what’s coming in its place “Fallen Tree Act” would make property owners responsible ... of Alaska Natives and the strong support of the people of Alaska.” The state had had a longstanding ...

Returning the state's workforce to a pension plan was a major campaign issue for the largely Democratic House and Senate ...

The name change reflected the traditions of Alaska Natives and the preference of many Alaskans, underscored by a push by state leaders decades earlier. The 20,310-foot (6,190-meter) mountain in Denali ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Senator Dan Sullivan on Wednesday urged Japan and other U.S. allies in Asia to get behind a multibillion-dollar gas project in his home state of Alaska, warning that ...

Winter in Alaska has waterfalls frozen mid-cascade, ice caves so blue they look unreal, and lakes so clear you can skate ...

Harty argues that state funding has fallen behind what Alaska schools need to stay afloat, while admitting that the school district also needs to consolidate. The five Fairbanks area schools up ...

The Alaska State Trooper’s Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit (SDEU) released its annual drug report on January 23, highlighting trends in illegal narcotics trafficking within the state.

The spike was given to Col. Frederick Mears, one of the Alaska Railroad’s chief engineers, as a parting gift when he left the project. Mears loaned it to the state and railroad for the July 15, 1923, ...

Rachel Dobkin is a Newsweek reporter based in New York. Her focus is reporting on politics. Rachel joined Newsweek in October 2023. She is a graduate of The State University of New York at Oneonta.