Twenty-two Alaska veterans came home to bagpipes and crowds at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on Saturday, Oct. 10, after a five-day Last Frontier Honor Flight trip to Washington, D.C.
The remnants of a typhoon pushed a powerful Bering Sea storm from the Aleutian Islands onto Western Alaska’s coast this week, bringing coastal flooding, high surf and winds near 65 mph.
Kenai holds its 11th annual Pumpkin Festival on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Softball Greenstrip.
Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have completed a 1,000-kilometer drone test flight to see if human blood stays stable in transit.
The Navy put the destroyer USS Ted Stevens into service Saturday in a cold, rainy ceremony at Whittier.
The Alaska Federation of Natives will gather in Anchorage this month for its 60th Annual Convention, running Oct. 22-24 at the Dena’ina Center under the theme “Rooted in Land and Tradition, Rising in Our Voices.”
For nearly a third of Alaskans, Medicaid isn’t an abstraction. It’s how they see a doctor. State health data shows 199,576 Alaskans enrolled in the program.
Consumer confidence across the U.S. fell to its lowest point since 2014 this month, according to new data from the Conference Board, as rising fuel costs and economic uncertainty weighed on household sentiment nationwide — worries that echo concerns already circulating among Southcentral Alaska households and businesses watching the region’s tightening natural gas supply.
Tucked into the woods behind a Rabbit Creek home outside Anchorage, a winding backyard trail holds something most hikers wouldn’t expect: half a dozen miniature villages populated by gnomes, fairies, hermits and trolls.
Alaska drivers are paying some of the highest gas prices in the country.
Advocates in Alaska’s Interior warned a proposed gold mine on the Johnson Tract in Lake Clark National Park threatens critical habitat ecosystems and a large chunk of the state’s economy.
Whittier’s newly built cruise ship terminal burned to a total loss this week, but city officials and event organizers say they managed to rescue plans for the USS Ted Stevens’ commissioning ceremony in a matter of hours.