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This summer saw two instances of high pressure systems near Alaska. One was in eastern Siberia and the other was in Western Canada and Eastern Alaska. Both led to dry weather and numerous wildfires in the area.

Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor signed onto a filing in support of an appeal by Mississippi.

Seward's Lydia Jacoby left Tokyo this weekend with two Olympic medals. Now, it's back to her hometown, where she's excited to sleep in her own bed and eat a home-cooked meal.

In an attempt to curb the community’s largest COVID-19 outbreak of the pandemic, the Sitka Assembly voted 6-0 at an emergency meeting on July 29 to require masks in public spaces.

Two-thirds of Alaska's congressional delegation is urging Alaskans to get vaccinated. U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan takes a different approach.

An expanded federal tax credit for working families rolled out last week as part of the American Rescue Plan Act. Many have already seen their bank accounts credited $250 to $300 per child this month. It’s a plan that experts say will cut child poverty in half across the country — including in Alaska.

Juneau emergency officials are raising the city’s COVID-19 risk level from moderate to high and mandating partial restrictions to limit the disease’s spread, effective at 12:01 a.m. Friday.

It was the largest earthquake in the United States in 50 years, a classic Alaska subduction zone earthquake, where the tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean is subducting - or sliding under - the North American plate upon which Alaska sits.

Judge Gregory Miller rejected arguments that the new election method voters adopted with Ballot Measure 2 is unconstitutional.

“What I do is my business, and what the individual does is their business,” Bronson said. “I’m not here to tell people to wear masks or get vaccinated. My focus as a government leader is to provide the absolute best information that’s available.”