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While many of Alaska's best destinations are tightly guarded secrets, the largest vehicle-accessible glacier in North America is a favorite that locals don't mind showing off.
Jessie Holmes wins the Kobuk 440, Mat-Su Central School opens in Palmer, Ketchikan faces blasting delays, and the Alaska Hummingbird Festival continues this weekend.
On a small island in the Aleutians, some place names from World War II are reminders of the hate and racism of that time. An Anchorage historian has been working to correct that.
Cost-cutting efforts by the Trump Administration over the past few months have dug away at the National Weather Service's ...
The marble office building near Capitol Hill is a world away from Tom Atkinson's home above the Arctic Circle in Alaska. The ...
The Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait are separated by the International Date Line with Big ... More Diomede Island ...
When folk musician Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) arrives on the remote, sea-swept Wallis Island, he believes he’s coming to play an intimate gig for a few fans. In reality, the concert is for one man: ...
Fresh explosive activity has been recorded at Whakaari/White Island with evidence of “ballistic blocks” ejected more than half a kilometre from the active vent. GNS Science duty volcanologist ...
Meteorologists and former National Weather Service leaders say reducing vital weather balloon launches will degrade the ...
Earlier this month, the agency had announced weather balloon cuts in Albany, New York and Gray, Maine, and in late February, it ended launches in Kotzebue, Alaska. That makes 11 announced sites with ...