Alaska

Foggy, reduced-visibility conditions have delayed efforts to recover the wreckage of a sightseeing plane that crashed in southeast Alaska, killing six people.

The U.S. Coast Guard says a sightseeing plane crashed Thursday in southeast Alaska, killing all six people on board

A tsunami warning was issued for parts of Alaska and a tsunami watch for Hawaii after an 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck near Perryville, Alaska.

The largest earthquake in the United States in the last half century produced a lot of shaking but spared Alaska any major damage in a sparsely populated region

Gold medal winner Lydia Jacoby tells us why Alaska tops the list of the best states in the U.S.

An injured man was rescued on Friday after reportedly fending off a bear for a week at a remote mining camp in Alaska, officials said

Prices are rising for goods and services as the U.S. confronts its most serious inflation in decades. These most expensive states to live in had a head start.

America’s infrastructure, from roads to bridges, power and broadband internet, is in bad shape in many states. But the following states rank as the worst.

Oil prices are up, but Alaska isn’t. The state is worst in the 2021 America’s Top State for Business ranking. High costs and low oil production are factors.

The Last Frontier stakes out new territory when it comes to costs, finishing last overall in this year’s rankings.

Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and later ran for president twice, has died.

The Biden administration has suspended oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Travel searches are surging, and bookings aren’t far behind. But it isn’t happening uniformly across continents. Here’s who is booking and where they’re going.

The U.S. Interior Department says it will not pursue a Trump administration proposal that critics feared would have weakened rules for exploratory oil and gas drilling in Arctic waters

The National Transportation Safety Board has found that obstructed views and problems with a system that alerts pilots to nearby planes combined to cause the midair crash of Alaska sightseeing planes that killed six people two years ago.

More than a year after cruising came to a standstill as Covid gripped cabins, holidaymakers are seeing signs that cruises could be making a comeback.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy says COVID-19 vaccines would be made available at key airports in the state starting June 1

Federal investigators say a helicopter carrying five passengers on a heli-skiing trip in Alaska crashed into a mountain and then rolled downhill nearly 900 feet

The summer travel season is already booming for some places. From hotels and home rentals to flights, car rentals and campsites, here’s what’s being booked.

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