Fat Bear Week returns to Katmai National Park and Preserve starting today, with the public invited to vote on which of 16 brown bears has packed on the most weight ahead of winter hibernation.
Fifteen trail projects across Alaska are getting a funding boost this year, after state transportation officials distributed more than $2.2 million in federal dollars through the first major grant cycle of a newly launched trails initiative.
Anchorage’s annual trail fitness fundraiser, the Moose Loop Trail Challenge, kicked off Saturday and runs through Sept. 19, giving residents a week-long window to log miles on the city’s 32-mile urban trail system. The route traces a moose-shaped path through Anchorage and is open to walkers, runners, cyclists, and anyone rolling through on wheels.
Ferry travel to Skagway resumed Friday following nearly a month of downtime caused by damage discovered at the town’s dock. Engineers found spreading cracks in the concrete structure holding up the vehicle transfer bridge, plus deterioration in the chains anchoring the floating dock — a combination serious enough to halt service entirely while crews assessed the risk.
City officials in Anchorage are turning waste that would otherwise be buried in a landfill into energy.
The Alaska State Fair opens Friday at the fairgrounds on the Glenn Highway, running through Labor Day, September 7. The fair is closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays, which leaves 14 open days with gates from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
The 2026 Bristol Bay sockeye season is essentially over, and the fish came in under what biologists predicted. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game
The 65th World Eskimo-Indian Olympics opened this week at the Carlson Center, running July 15 through 18.
The 98th Mount Marathon Race runs Saturday, sending runners 1.5 miles up and back down the peak that rises directly behind town over Resurrection Bay. Men and women cover the full mountain. Juniors turn around at the halfway point.
Sun broke over downtown Wednesday as an estimated 1,800 dancers filed into Centennial Hall for the Grand Entrance, opening four days of Celebration.
The MS Eurodam tied up downtown Monday with more than 2,000 passengers aboard, opening a cruise season that will look different from the ones before it.
The blocks came out of the ponds in February, and by this week they had become seahorses, rattlesnakes and a 20-foot figure called “Victory.”