A planned state cemetery for Interior Alaska veterans received a major funding boost this month, according to Alaska’s director of Veterans Affairs.

Weeks after the Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection issued a public order officially declaring an early start to the fire season for parts of the state, elite Alaska smokejumper firefighters ...

The Companion Fare benefit and bag-fee waivers can save you hundreds — if Alaska Airlines is (or can be) your go-to airline. For some, that won't be possible. If you fly Alaska Airlines with ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Anchorage police have identified the driver in a pedestrian hit and run collision as 32-year-old Anthony Roberts. Roberts was taken into custody and charged with Assault in ...

A new Veterans Cemetery in Salcha and a possible Veterans Home in Fairbanks are the topics of tonight’s “Home on the Grange” discussion at 7 p.m. at the North Pole Grange, 2800 Grange Road.

It was unmistakably a bat, the first I had seen in Alaska. Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist Karen Blejwas confirmed that my surprise wasn’t unfounded. Blejwas said the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Forecast for avalanches remains high in the area of Alaska where three skiers who were flown by helicopter ...

Alaska political leaders on Wednesday broadly welcomed President Donald Trump’s remarks to Congress talking up the prospects of the state’s long-sought but faltering natural gas pipeline. In ...

An avalanche in the Alaskan backcountry buried three skiers under at least 40 feet of snow, Alaska Wildlife Troopers said in a dispatch Wednesday. The blanket of debris could be as deep as 100 ...

GIRDWOOD, Alaska (AP) — Three skiers who had flown by helicopter to a remote mountain range were swept away by an avalanche and likely killed under the weight of snow nearly as deep as a 10 ...

Alaska State Troopers said in an online dispatch that the avalanche caught the skiers at about 3:30 p.m. near the west fork of the Twentymile River, about 8 miles northeast of the Girdwood airport ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Downtown Anchorage, Alaska, was turned into a giant dog lot on Saturday as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ...