1 day ago
Geologist Chris Waythomas of the Alaska Volcano Observatory says a narrow ash plume extends a couple hundred miles southeast from the volcano, which is 625 miles southwest of Anchorage.
2 days ago
Anchorage police say a young man who didn't want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an Alaska lake to escape officers armed with an arrest warrant.
2 days ago
The Alaska Volcano Observatory said Thursday a continuous cloud of ash, steam and gas from Pavlof Volcano has been seen 20,000 feet above sea level.
3 days ago
Polar bear cub orphaned in Alaska lands at NY zoo
3 days ago
The Alaska Volcano Observatory says in a release that an ash plume was reported rising from Pavlof Volcano on Tuesday evening at about 15,000 feet.
4 days ago
The Alaska Volcano Observatory says satellite images Tuesday show the lava partly down a flank of Pavlof Volcano in a low-level eruption 625 miles southwest of Anchorage.
13 days ago
The Territory of Alaska was part of the North American continent, sharing the mainland with the 48 states.
19 days ago
Aamir Khan says he's happy he's been able to entertain people during his quarter-century as a Bollywood star.
71 days ago
Searchers have found a commercial cargo plane that crashed in southwest Alaska and pulled the bodies of the pilot and co-pilot.
74 days ago
Mackey pulled into the checkpoint at Ophir, Alaska, at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday and stayed for 15 minutes before getting his team back on the trail.
75 days ago
Authorities says searchers in Alaska are looking for a small plane with three people aboard that was reported overdue on a flight from Anchorage to the small village of Takotna.
76 days ago
Now 65 teams will be making their way through punishing wilderness toward the finish line in Nome on Alaska's western coast 1,000 miles away.
78 days ago
Archdiocese to defrock Alaskan priest
79 days ago
Murray Feldman, a private attorney who represented Alaska and the other appellants, said during October oral arguments that the bears are doing fine overall.
79 days ago
Sixty-six mushers and their dog teams are signed up for the 1,000-mile trek through unpredictable wilderness to the old gold rush town of Nome on Alaska's western coast.
80 days ago
Last year in Alaska, there were 1,629 abortions, two more than the year before, though generally the number has been shrinking, according to reports compiled by the Alaska Bureau of Vital Statistics.
87 days ago
Fisherman Ladd Norheim of the southeast Alaska community of Petersburg said the sea otters are "decimating" Dungeness crab stocks and would like to see some kind of management.
87 days ago
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Thursday he had signed a signed a record of decision for the reserve west of Prudhoe Bay and south of Barrow on Alaska's North Slope.
88 days ago
"The intent of HB 80 is to apply a consistent environmental approach to all wastewater dischargers in Alaska -- cruise ships, municipalities, fish processors and others," she said.
90 days ago
"Giessel said that if the project was feasible, "and we have the option to safely create more jobs and economic opportunities for folks that want to live in rural Alaska, then we need to look at...
92 days ago
The U.S. attorney in Alaska says a man has been arrested in the murders last year of two employees at a Coast Guard air station on Kodiak Island.
102 days ago
The FBI has released handwritten notes found beneath the body of confessed Alaska serial killer Israel Keyes.
103 days ago
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it won't approve a land exchange that would have allowed construction of a road through Alaska's Izembek (EYE'-zem-bek) National Wildlife Refuge.
103 days ago
The House decided Monday to roll back pollution standards voted into law by the 2006 cruise-ship initiative, allowing cruise vessels to dump ammonia, copper and other contaminants into Alaska waters.
103 days ago
With a new contract approved by pilots in December, American can increase the amount of domestic code-sharing with Alaska and other carriers.
