About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the gray skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who ...

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will now start in Fairbanks, not Willow, due to a lack of snow, race officials announced ...

The Iditarod Trail Committee said Monday it will relocate the race's restart to Fairbanks because of abysmal snow conditions across a long middle portion of the trail. The decision follows an outcry ...

The spectacular natural phenomenon paints the skies around the North Pole with glowing multi-colored lights - follow our top ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

An official state of the union for 66 years, Alaska is known for its glaciers, permafrost and national parks. Home to North ...

They disappeared over a hundred years ago. Now, Michigan is closer than its ever been to Arctic grayling returning to its ...

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Attempts have been made in the past to bring grayling back to Michigan waters, pulling populations from other areas, including Alaska and western Canada. The DNR started its latest initiative with ...

2, 2015, in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, file) In this photo provided by Andrew Esola, Joe McAneney flies his airplane over the Chulitna River toward Mount ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians moved north on Monday after Israeli forces withdrew from ...

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday afternoon, AccuWeather shared photos showing the difference in snow in the two states as Alaska is historically known to have high snow accumulations in ...