Balin Miller has started to make a name for himself. Miller, a 23-year-old from Anchorage, has completed a string of hard ice climbs and solo climbs not only here in Alaska but also in Canada and ...

Twenty mushers and 150 dogs took turns carrying a 20-pound package of life-saving serum. Here’s how they completed this ...

The Barrow Coastal Erosion Project calls for over 100,000 tons of armor rock to be placed along 5 miles of the North Slope ...

For the first time, the state known for glaciers, dogsledding and northern lights issued a heat advisory, with Fairbanks pushing the mid-80s.

The antitoxin used to treat it was developed in 1890, and a vaccine in 1923; it is now exceedingly rare in the U.S. Nome, western Alaska's largest community, had about 1,400 residents a century ago.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Bering Air flight that crashed near Nome last month, killing the pilot and all nine passengers, was more than 1,000 pounds too heavy for the icy weather it was flying ...

The plane was equipped with deicing technology and fluid, according to the report. Weather observations at Nome included “trace icing” starting just before 3 p.m. the day of the crash, it said.

The USACE Alaska District says in a statement that it has a high level of confidence that the Port of Nome Modification design will be resilient to future climate conditions, even with the change ...

NOME, Alaska — Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday, celebrating with fist pumps to a cheering crowd and posing for photos ...

That made the normally 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) race a staggering 1,129 miles (1,817 kilometers) across the Alaska wilderness. Holmes finished in 10 days, 14 hours, 55 minutes and 41 seconds.

Nome reached a high of 51 degrees, not only shattering their all time January high temperature (which was 46) but according to the Alaska weather blog "Deep Cold: Interior and Northern Alaska ...