Mark Thiessen - The Associated Press
Alaska air pollution holds clues for other Arctic climates
In the pristine expanse of Alaska’s interior lies a dirty secret: some of the most polluted winter air in the United States can be found in and around Fairbanks.
Appeals court reverses ruling that halted road from King Cove to Cold Bay
Nine environmental groups had sued to stop the land swap on the Alaska Peninsula.
Brent Sass is first Iditarod musher to leave race’s halfway point
All mushers in the nearly 1,000-mile race across Alaska must take three mandatory rest periods: a 24-hour layover at any checkpoint, an eight-hour layover somewhere along the Yukon River and another eight-hour layover at White Mountain, which is 77 miles from the finish line.
NTSB issues safety recommendations after Alaska midair crash
In the 2020 crash, the two planes collided just over 2 miles from the Soldotna Airport, which does not have an air traffic control tower.
Alaska musher Dallas Seavey on brink of becoming Iditarod’s best ever
Win or lose, this year’s Iditarod across Alaska will be his last — at least for a while.
Homer man saved after clinging to ice chunk for more than 30 minutes in Cook Inlet
Jamie Snedden, 45, of Homer, was rescued Saturday near the community of Anchor Point on the Kenai Peninsula.
Moose attacks mushers’ team during a training run near Fairbanks, injuring 4 dogs
Bridgett Watkins' injured dogs are on the mend, and she’s back training with the others.
Swarm of earthquakes, some strong, hits off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands
Natalia Ruppert, a seismologist at the Alaska Earthquake Center, said it was a “very unusual, very energetic swarm of earthquakes.”
Efforts continue in Alaska to find abandoned baby’s family
Officials in Alaska said Tuesday they are still attempting to identify a newborn that was found abandoned in a cardboard box on street corner in Fairbanks in frigid conditions on New Year’s Eve.
DNA matches body to Alaska man last seen alive in 1979
The remains of a man found on Fire Island just west of Anchorage in 1989 have been identified through DNA and genome sequencing, Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday.
Gov. Dunleavy undergoes successful shoulder surgery
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy's office said Wednesday that the governor is “recovering and doing well.”
Alaska man pleads not guilty to threatening Sullivan and Murkowski
Jay Allen Johnson was indicted last week on six criminal counts — including threatening to murder a U.S. official, being a felon in possession of firearms, threatening to destroy property by fire and threatening interstate communications.
Winds whip up volcanic ash from 1912 eruption in Alaska
Volcano scientists issued an alert Wednesday, warning that a cloud of ash — from an eruption more than century ago — was headed toward Alaska’s Kodiak Island.
Alaska officials consider more charges in Safeway shooting
Authorities have released the name of the man shot and killed as he exited a grocery store in Fairbanks as the prosecutor said he is considering additional charges against the alleged shooter.
Grand jury will get case of man threatening to kill Alaska US senators
A magistrate has ruled that there is probable cause for a case to continue against a man accused of threatening to kill Alaska’s two U.S. senators in profanity-filled voicemails left on their office phones.
Delta Junction man accused of threatening 2 US senators to remain in jail
A man upset over the impeachment of former President Donald Trump, illegal immigration and the direction he thinks the country is headed is accused of threatening the lives of Alaska’s two Republican U.S. senators in a series of profanity-laced voicemails that included saying he would hire an assassin to kill one.
Delta Junction man faces charges over threatening Murkowski’s life
In a threat left in a voice message, the caller asked if the senator knew what a .50 caliber shell does to a human head, according to court records unsealed Wednesday.
Rural Alaska at risk as COVID surge swamps faraway hospitals
The battle against the coronavirus isn’t over. The highly contagious delta variant is spreading across Alaska, driving one of the nation’s sharpest upticks in infections and posing risks for remote outposts like Tanacross where the closest hospital is hours away.
Alaska activates emergency crisis protocols in 20 health care facilities
Alaska on Saturday activated emergency crisis protocols that allow 20 health care facilities to ration care if needed as the state recorded the nation’s worst COVID-19 diagnosis rates in the U.S. in recent days, straining its limited health care system.
Prosecutors vet US Senate candidate’s fishing license case
Law enforcement officials have completed their investigation into whether a U.S. Senate candidate and former State of Alaska official illegally obtained a fishing license for a sportfishing event two years ago. They have turned it over to a special prosecutorial branch of the Department of Law, an official said Thursday.