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.

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 ...

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 ...

Sarah Montalbano is an energy policy analyst at Always On Energy Research, a nonprofit energy modeling firm. Alaska is often treated as a wilderness to be protected from its own residents. That ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here by permission. President Donald Trump is considering allowing companies to lease more than 113 million acres of waters off Alaska ...

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 ...

Alaska House Majority Leader Chuck Kopp says that he is confident the Legislature will pass a new public pension plan this year, two decades after lawmakers eliminated guaranteed pensions for the ...

The Trump administration announced Monday it is seeking suggestions for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge sites to auction off for oil development, a key step toward a new lease sale in a place that has ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...