The avalanche occurred late Tuesday afternoon near Girdwood, a skiing community about 40 miles south of Anchorage, Alaska.

An official state of the union for 66 years, Alaska is known for its glaciers, permafrost and national parks. Home to North America’s highest mountain peak and the 2,000-mile-long Yukon River, the ...

a 211-mile industrial road through the Brooks Range foothills that enables commercial mining for copper, zinc and other materials in a remote Arctic area in Northwest Alaska. That executive order ...

Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski is clamoring ... putting villagers at odds with the Gwich’in south of the Brooks Range, who also depend on the Porcupine caribou herd that summers and calves ...

"On May 2, 1967, a DC-3 with half dozen of us on board flew through the mountains of the Brooks Range directly over ... Hickel, governor of Alaska, 1966 to 1969 Governor Walter J.

Wet weather will impact Southcentral. Rain and wet snow will move through Saturday. And rain amounts will be heaviest around ...

Kristin Gates didn’t look like she had just finished hiking across the Brooks Range three days earlier. Her long, brown hair was neatly combed and she was wearing a green, long-sleeve ...