As someone from Alaska, I've heard a lot of misconceptions about what life there is really like. Many people I meet think Alaska is all wilderness and nature, but our cities are surprisingly urban.

As Alaska Air continues its journey to expand into a global airline, it opened a new training facility Thursday where thousands of pilots, flight attendants and customer service agents will practice ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics kick off in Italy on Friday at 10 a.m. Alaska time with an opening ceremony. The Games run through Feb. 22 and will feature about a dozen athletes with ties to Alaska. Here’s ...

Alaska’s population rose slightly between 2024 and 2025 and is now at its highest level since 2017, the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced Wednesday. Alaska had an ...

Under cloudy skies, the Regent Seven Seas Explorer anchored off Prince of Wales Island. The ship had spent the past few days navigating the Alexander Archipelago, with its pine forests, dramatic ...

More than 1,500 active-duty troops had been on standby to deploy to Minnesota, but were quietly taken off heightened alert over the weekend. By Eric Schmitt The military’s Northern Command has taken ...

The Alaska ferry system is at risk of running out of operating funds this summer because of a frozen federal grant program, according to state transportation officials. Nearly half of the Alaska ...

Two Alaska school districts filed a lawsuit on Jan. 20 in Anchorage Superior Court against the state, its governor and its education commissioner over what they say is a long-running failure to ...

Excavations at the Holzman site in 2019 exposed a 13,700-year-old surface. Archaeologists discovered ivory and quartz fragments in association with a flat anvil stone used to fracture mammoth ivory ...

of adults in Alaska identify as Christians. Note: 5% did not answer the question. Figures may not sum to 100% due to rounding. Margin of error for 2023-24 figures ...