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The aurora forecast Wednesday wasn’t looking too promising: the University of Alaska Fairbanks forecast page predicted only “quiet” activity, meaning

As the top mushers in the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race take their big 40-hour break in Dawson City,

An effort to tie Alaska into a proposed fiber-optic cable snaking between London and Japan has vanished from public view.

After a couple of rough years in Alaska aviation, 2012 offered a relative bright spot with 11 fatalities, almost half

GIRDWOOD — For the dogs of Alyeska’s Patrol Avalanche Canine (PAC) program, the tough job of saving lives is “kind

When news came last summer that old airplane wreckage discovered on Colony Glacier belonged to a massive C-124 Globemaster that

Last week “flash mobs” in solidarity with the Canadian-born indigenous rights movement, “Idle No More,” began popping up in Alaska’s

Sometimes Mother Nature taketh away, and sometimes she giveth back. A year ago, the Copper Basin 300 Sled Dog Race

After 14 years and with the help of hundreds of volunteers, the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska, will soon be

No one Outside is ever going to rank any of Alaska’s cities as a fashion hub or shopping hot spot.

What a difference a year makes, especially when it comes to snowfall. Alyeska Resort in Girdwood was the holiday talk

SHELL LAKE — Mother Nature isn’t playing nice with Alaska’s two premier winter sports competitions: the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled

The town of Kotzebue in December is the epitome of winter. Temperatures are well below freezing and the sky is

Residents of the Southwest Alaska community Emmonak had a brief scare Wednesday morning when the water supply to the village

None other than the venerable Sierra Club has stepped up the fight against the state’s plans to punch a 100-mile