The Latest Breaking News from Alaska

If there’s one place in the world to coax a confirmed cruise-sceptic onto the water, it’s Alaska, where the spectacular wildlife and landscapes are all but unreachable by other means. Even the capital, Juneau, is severed from the rest of the state – and the rest of North America –…

A proposal by the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, to fly homeless people to warmer climates or other Alaska cities underscores the homeless crisis affecting the state's largest city, and the very unique dangers faced by the unsheltered in an extreme environment

Friends and family are remembering the three passengers and pilot killed when a helicopter crashed on Alaska's remote North Slope late last week

Authorities in Alaska say search and rescue divers have recovered the bodies of a helicopter pilot and three state scientists whose aircraft went down in a shallow lake last week

A rescue and recovery dive team was deployed Saturday after a helicopter with a pilot and three state workers crashed in a large lake on Alaska’s North Slope,

Simon Mirkes, 16, collapses due to cardiac issues, prompting community support and halachic procedures.

Officials say no survivors have been found after a helicopter carrying four people crashed in a remote Alaska lake

An Alaska man on a paddleboard escaped a close encounter with a humpback whale that surfaced right in front of him

Authorities say an Alaska man inadvertently filmed his own drowning on a glacial lake with a GoPro camera mounted on his helmet