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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The powerful earthquake that struck in Northern California on Thursday prompted a brief tsunami warning affecting about 5 million people along long stretch of the West [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The search for five people believed to be aboard https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-search-boat-capsize-alaska-0d59aed785c66d63c3f2b10f0dbb87db in the Gulf of Alaska has been suspended, the Coast Guard said Monday. The search lasted [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — In the remotest reaches of Alaska, there’s no relying on DoorDash to have https://apnews.com/projects/thanksgiving-dinner-inflation-groceries-buying-power/ — or any dinner — delivered. But some residents living well off [...]

Voters in two counties in Washington state and Oregon have not received mail-in ballots with less than a week to go before the election, election officials said Wednesday. The news [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — On a desolate slab of island tundra in western Alaska, a resident of Adak will again become the last American to cast an in-person ballot for [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — In a storyline better befitting a melodrama than a popularity vote, Grazer won her https://apnews.com/article/alaska-brown-bears-fat-contest-afa9de13cf8dc98fe2f5499a6a0f6d02 by defeating the male behemoth that killed her cub this summer. [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Let the chunk-off begin. Voting started Wednesday in the annual https://apnews.com/article/alaska-brown-bears-fat-contest-afa9de13cf8dc98fe2f5499a6a0f6d02 contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their favorite among a [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Military officials have released new video of a startling encounter between a Russian fighter jet flying near Alaska and a U.S. Air Force F-16 sent to […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — An https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/alaska-man-arrested-threatening-us-supreme-court-justices-their-family-members to injure and kill six https://apnews.com/hub/us-supreme-court justices and some of their family members has been indicted on federal charges, authorities said Thursday. Panos Anastasiou, 76, [...]

A 14-year-old boy stands charged with four counts of murder, accused of using a semiautomatic assault-style rifle to kill two students and two teachers this week at his high school [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Rapper-turned-actor Chris “Ludacris” Bridges sparked concern from some social media followers when he knelt on an Alaska glacier, dipped an empty water bottle into a blue, [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A landslide cut a path down a steep, thickly forested hillside and crashed into several homes in Ketchikan, killing one person and injuring three in the [...]

HONOLULU (AP) — A tour company helicopter crashed off the Hawaiian island of Kauai, police said, killing one person and leaving two missing in the latest in https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-helicopter-air-tour-safety-faa-672792a98ac9ae6b6581c772927016e2 to plague [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A https://apnews.com/article/b453c43b32fd4fb181152955768afac5 and was heard while videotaping the torture death of one say that in his movies “everybody always dies” was sentenced Friday to 226 years [...]

Byline: MARK THIESSEN; ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Rick Mackey, the winner of the 1983 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, has died of lung cancer, his daughter told the Associated [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska serial killer who admitted that he killed five people, including one when he was only 14, has died in an Indiana prison, officials said. [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man and two police officers rescued a baby moose from what police described as “a sure demise” after it fell into a lake and [...]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis police officer responding to a shooting call was ambushed and killed Thursday when he stopped to provide aid to a man who appeared to be [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 70-year-old Alaska man who was attempting to take photos of two newborn moose calves was attacked and killed by their mother, authorities said Monday. The [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The athletes filling a huge gym in Anchorage, Alaska were ready to compete, cheering and stomping and high-fiving each other as they lined up for the [...]

Two members of an Idaho white supremacist prison gang, including an inmate and the man accused of https://apnews.com/article/hospital-shooting-idaho-escaped-white-supremacist-07b020ed8392ea125d3bf9df92185de8 in an armed ambush at a Boise hospital, are due in court [...]

Police on Thursday arrested two white supremacist gang members — an Idaho prison inmate and the accomplice who helped him escape — following an attack on corrections officers at a [...]

A white supremacist Idaho prison gang member and an accomplice remained on the loose Wednesday after the accomplice staged a brazen overnight attack to free the inmate as he was [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two dogs died over the weekend during Alaska’s https://apnews.com/hub/iditarod-trail-sled-dog-race, marking the first deaths during the race in five years and renewing calls to end the 1,000-mile [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A veteran musher had to kill a moose after it injured his dog shortly after the start of this year’s Iditarod, race officials said Monday. Dallas [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Iditarod, the annual sled dog race celebrating Alaska's official state sport, got underway Saturday with a new focus on safety after five dogs died and [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A shooting that killed two adults and severely wounded two others has stunned a tiny Alaska Native whaling village above the Arctic Circle, where parents were [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Claims of violence against women are roiling the world's most famous sled dog race — Alaska's Iditarod — with officials disqualifying two top mushers this week [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man who tortured https://apnews.com/article/alaska-natives-memory-card-murder-trial-a870da2338f0979323367fba6c40729c and captured her violent death in a cellphone video was found guilty of first-degree murder on Thursday in two killings, by [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The governing body of the world’s most famous sled dog race has disqualified the https://apnews.com/article/iditarod-2023-ryan-redington-wins-a9b7d7a789bf032e3d1538058901b249 rookie of the year from this year’s contest by citing a [...]

Dexter Scott King, the late son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was remembered Saturday as the protector of his family’s legacy and the keeper of [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man accused of https://apnews.com/article/alaska-natives-memory-card-murder-trial-a870da2338f0979323367fba6c40729c recorded images of both of his victims, and the break in the case came when a third woman stole the man's [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A woman with a lengthy criminal history including theft, assault and prostitution got into a truck with a man who had picked her up for a [...]

A fake emergency call to police resulted in officers responding Friday night to the home of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows just a day after she removed former President [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Gregory Golodoff spent most of his years on a quiet Alaska island, living an ordinary life, managing a co-op store, fishing for crab and serving as [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Searchers with heat-sensing drones and a cadaver-dog kept up the search Wednesday for three people missing in a landslide that barreled down a mountain and slammed [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Four homeless people have died in Anchorage in the last week, underscoring the city’s ongoing struggle to house a large homeless population at the same time [...]

EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska's biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — When it comes to packing on the pounds to survive an Alaska winter, this year’s undisputed champ is Grazer. Grazer, also known as Bear 128 to [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Events across the country — including a sunrise gathering in Minneapolis, a rally at the statehouse in Maine, a celebratory march in Seattle and traditional dancing, [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska state board of education on Thursday voted to support banning transgender girls from competing on high school girls athletic teams, sending the issue to [...]

Byline: MARK THIESSEN; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Ryan Redington on Tuesday won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, bringing his six dogs off the Bering Sea ice to [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Before Morris Nashoanak heads out for days in search of bearded seals, beluga whales or salmon, he catches the weather on TV. But it's not the [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday halted a lower court ruling that would have shut down southeast Alaska’s chinook salmon troll fishery for the summer to [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The cruise ship with about 1,000 passengers anchored off Nome, too big to squeeze into into the tundra city's tiny port. Its well-heeled tourists had to [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Salt Lake City man who says his job offer to become an Alaska State Trooper was rescinded after he disclosed he was HIV positive filed [...]

HONOLULU (AP) — Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, began erupting on Wednesday after a three-month pause, displaying spectacular fountains of mesmerizing, glowing lava that's a [...]