The Latest Breaking News from Alaska

I have been catching up with ABC's recently premiered "The Rookie: Feds," in which Niecy Nash-Betts stars as a middle-aged high school guidance counselor turned FBI "probie." (I say "middle-aged," but that isn't a description that sticks easily to Nash-Betts.) It's an over-the-top action cartoon, in which scenes dealing with…

"Spotlight" director Tom McCarthy isn't done investigating journalism.

If hypocrisy in politics turns you off, the election you need is in Alaska, where the candidates are voraciously out for themselves. You can vote beginning Wednesday.

The risk-taking geologist who discovered a giant Alaska oil field in 2013 that companies had long overlooked is taking another stab at exploration drilling on the North Slope, this time on federal land west of existing development.

Environmental advocates, Alaska Natives and commercial fishermen say they are at once confident and anxious as they wait for the EPA to announce a final ban on mining wastes in Bristol Bay, Alaska — home to one of the world’s largest salmon fisheries — that would effectively kill a gold…

Developers, environmental advocates await an EPA decision that could block the opening of the Pebble Mine near an Alaskan salmon fishery.

A reality television star and Iditarod musher was injured this week while helping clean up extreme storm damage along the Bering Sea coast in western Alaska

WASHINGTON — Alex Ortiz thought he was done with Capitol Hill. After a decade as a staffer for “the representative for all Alaska,” Ortiz carried out the sad duty this spring of packing up Don Young’s office after the Republican’s sudden death — even at 88 years old, it still…

Timothy Treadwell considered bears his friends and traveled to Alaska every summer for 13 years to spend months camping with the wild animals.