ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A wildfire chewing through the forest of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula has expanded in size, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of 1,000 structures, officials said. The ...

Smoke from the Riley Fire blankets mountain slopes near the main entrance of Denali National Park and Preserve on Monday evening. A plane enlisted in the firefighting effort is seen flying over the ...

When people think of large cities, the area defines the land. In terms of Alaska, the area is measured very differently. The state’s largest cities by area are dominated by consolidated city-boroughs.

Alaska is off to the slowest start of a wildfire season in three decades — an immense relief one year after fires scorched nearly enough land to cover Connecticut and even threatened remote Alaska ...

BETHEL -- The poorest part of Alaska -- drawn as a census area, a kind of place that only exists in this state -- is named after a man who not only never set foot here but who was a slave-owning Civil ...

Where the blue H is currently parked, that's a small bubble of warmer air parked over the Alaska peninsula. Typically this happens when you have areas of low pressure on either side of a ridge. You ...

The Bush administration has opened nearly half a million acres of federal land in northeastern Alaska to oil drilling — a move blasted by environmentalists but praised by industry, which notes the ...

Alaska Energy Metals Corporation President & CEO commented: “We are pleased to recover some of our costs from the large exploration data set we bought earlier this year. KoBold owns claims that ...

Authorities on Friday identified those missing or killed in a southeast Alaska landslide this week as five family members and their neighbor, a commercial fisherman who made a longshot bid for the ...

A strong earthquake jolted Alaska's most populous region Monday, sending residents and office workers diving under desks and huddling in doorways but causing almost no damage. The U.S. Geological ...

Winter is far from over in the San Francisco Bay Area. Two separate cold fronts from the Gulf of Alaska are expected to blast the region with cold air, kick up winds and bring soaking rains and a ...