When Erica Nelson and Abby Flantz lost their way during an overnight hike into Denali National Park, they decided to keep hiking.
"We spent a couple of days (doing) 11 hours of hiking. We kept seeing more mountains, more ridges," recalled Nelson, 23.
"The terrain was a lot harder than we thought it would be, and it [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Residents of Juneau, Alaska’s capital city, have been forced to cut energy use since a series of avalanches wiped out transmission towers and electrical lines, cutting off all power from the area’s hydroelectric system.
The extensive damage has forced Juneau to rely on costly electricity from backup generators fueled by diesel, which is [...]

SEWARD, Alaska — There are thousands of glaciers in Alaska, and seeing some up close will surely be a highlight of any trip you might be planning to the 49th state this summer. You can see glaciers from the deck of a ship, paddling in a canoe, by floatplane or helicopter, or by driving and [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney easily won Alaska’s caucuses on Tuesday, thanks to grass roots support in a state where voting was marked by subzero temperatures and overflowing crowds.
With 39 of 40 districts reporting, Obama was leading the Democratic race with 74 percent of the vote. Hillary Rodham Clinton had 25 percent.
On the [...]

More than 3 million acres in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest would be open to logging under a federal plan that supporters believe will revive the state’s struggling timber industry.
Environmentalists, however, fear that the proposal will devastate the forest.
The Bush administration released Friday a management plan for the forest, the largest in the country at nearly [...]

ANCHORAGE — The bitterly cold winter is becoming a boom time for a few tiny communities in the remote Arctic. Their moneymaker shimmers in the sky: It’s the aurora borealis.
North of the Arctic Circle, tiny outposts such as Bettles and Wiseman are increasingly drawing aurora-seeking tourists from Japan, Europe and the Lower 48. The statistics [...]

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — In the summer, the Denali Highway is a popular tourist destination.
The crude 135-mile "highway" intersects with Alaska’s two major highways — the Parks and Richardson — and cuts through the heart of the Alaska Range, offering spectacular views of snow-capped mountains and alpine tundra.
There is not another road in Alaska like it, [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Two significant earthquakes shook Alaska’s seismically active Aleutian Islands, but there were no immediate reports of any damages or injuries.
The magnitude-5.9 and 6.1 quakes struck about one minute apart starting at 9:23 p.m. on Thursday. Both were centered about 100 miles west of Adak in the island chain, according to a [...]