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A satellite image of Red Dog mine's pits flooded with water.

As Arctic warming accelerates, permafrost thaw hits Red Dog mine with $20 million bill

The problems at Red Dog, one of the world’s largest zinc mines, show how climate change poses a challenge not just to residents of Arctic Alaska, but also to the economy of the region, which is warming at triple the rate of the global average.

Rain falls in town next to a wooden sign that says "creek Street"

‘Merciless’ rain in Southeast Alaska breaks records, dampens spirits

Ketchikan recorded 47 inches of rain from June to August.

A white man with a bald head and glasses in a black suit and red tie speaks into a microphone

Trailing in Republican primary, Coghill asks for recount

Under state law, if the difference between the top candidates is within 20 votes, the state will pay for a recount.

A ferry at a dock with a mountain in the background at twilight

Residents to state work group: Ferries are essential, not ‘discretionary’

As a working group continues how to institute cuts, residents who rely on the ferry system say that they need it more than ever,

Retiring at 70, this MD helped lung patients, climbed Denali, ran the Iditarod and saved lives along the trail. Hear her stories.

Beth Baker came to Alaska at age 32, joining an Anchorage medical group as a pulmonary physician in 1982, staying with them for 36 years, through 2018.As…

Governor Dunleavy, wearing a greenish zip up jacket, gestures as he talks

Legislative committee OKs governor’s expansion of small business relief program

An Alaska legislative committee has agreed to Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s plan to expand access to a federally funded small business relief program.

A red-haired white girl looks up and to the left in the cover of a vogue magazine with text about the Tongass

Indigenous leaders are reimagining Vogue covers to get the word out on Tongass

Leaders are using the modified covers to get more traction about the Roadless Rule, which they want to remain in place.

This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (in yellow) — the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 — isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells (in blue/pink) cultured in a lab. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories)

Mat-Su elementary student tests positive for COVID-19

The school district says the student is in 3rd grade at Machetanz Elementary and did not attend school Thursday.

A woman in a red kuspuk (jacket) is standing at a podium that is affixed with the Interior Department seal.

BIA opens Anchorage office to investigate cold cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people

Federal authorities in Anchorage Wednesday marked the start of a new effort to bring the perpetrators of those crimes to justice.

A blue bow with a yellow stripe at a dock

AMHS communities say: Along with passengers, the future rides on the ferry

Advocates are hoping that even if funding for the ferry system isn't at previous levels, it can be more stable that it has been in recent years.

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