The disappearance of glaciers is also creating opportunities for the multibillion-dollar mining industry. Like migrating salmon, mineral exploration companies are moving quickly into areas exposed by ...

Paul Wilcox, a geologist at the University of Innsbruck, has discovered the first land-based evidence of meltwater pulses ...

There are almost as many bird species (321) as people on the island (338), and both are declining rapidly. Half of Alaska's ...

Reporter Joshua Partlow and photojournalist Carolyn Van Houten traveled to Alaska to document how climate change has transformed a community. ST. PAUL ISLAND, Alaska — This tiny island in the ...

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Thursday on "Varney & Co" that the state’s $44 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project is drawing investment interest from Asia. At the center of the Alaska ...

Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend is often regarded as a yearly Alaska stimulus check for residents, injecting cash directly into households and the state economy. In 2024, the program marked its ...

Fox Island, located in Resurrection Bay off the coast of Seward, Alaska, can only be reached by boat, and you may even spot puffins, sea otters, and humpback whales along the way. Here ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The great-granddaughter of the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea believes Japan should pay more restitution for what its soldiers did to the ...

Descendant of Last Native Leader of Alaska Island Demands Japanese Reparations for 1942 Invasion ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano's great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a ...

AMCHITKA ISLAND, Alaska (AP) — A series of moderate to strong earthquakes that struck Alaska’s western Aleutian Islands and offshore areas Sunday comprised what scientists call a “swarm ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — On a desolate slab of island tundra in western Alaska, a resident of Adak will again become the last American to cast an in-person ballot for president, continuing a 12-year ...