The Latest Breaking News from Alaska

Five hundred years ago, in a mountain-rimmed ocean fjord in southeast Alaska, Tlingit hunters armed with bone-tipped harpoons eased their canoes through chunks of floating ice, stalking seals near Sít Tlein (Hubbard) glacier. They must have glanced nervously up at the glacier’s looming, fractured face, aware that cascades of ice…

Three shootings in three weeks involving police officers in Anchorage, Alaska, have rattled residents and created a fight over transparency

Symptoms reported by passengers and crew aboard the Celebrity Summit cruise ship were vomiting and diarrhea

Experience the wonders of the midnight sun, a natural phenomenon where the sun never sets. Learn where you can witness this endless daylight and the science behind the strange phenomenon.

The 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings is marked with a poignant ceremony. Plus: Hilary Swank is an investigative journalist in Alaska Daily. Here’s what to watch this evening

A new agreement between Alaska’s capital city and major cruise lines seeks to cap the daily number of cruise ship passengers arriving in Juneau starting in 2026

Timothy Hoffman, 58, crashed on the final leg of the memorial ride in Alaska

The father of an Alaska woman killed in a murder-for-hire scheme in 2019 died during a weekend memorial motorcycle ride commemorating the fifth anniversary of her death

So-called “zombie fires” in the peatlands of Alaska, Canada and Siberia disappear from the Earth’s surface and smoulder underground during the winter before coming back to life the following spring.

Park officials say a Malaysian climber likely died of exposure and altitude-related illness as he sheltered in a snow cave at the top of Denali, North America’s tallest mountain in Alaska

Earthquakes — mostly on the West Coast — cost the US around $14.7 billion per year.