Starting Wednesday, areas of light rain begins to move into the Northern Panhandle. While rain will be the predominant precipitation type, higher elevations could see some wintry mix in the forecast.

Alaskans have witnessed our king salmon runs continue their downward trend of productivity, largely related to changing conditions in the ocean ...

President Donald Trump on Monday issued an executive order seeking to rename the Gulf of Mexico and change the name of North America’s tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, back to Mount McKinley.

A search for the words “Gulf of America” in the USGS map viewer Monday evening pointed to Alaska. Elsewhere on ... coast of the United States to the western end of Cuba. European explorers ...

Outside of some passing light snow showers, Western Alaska will retain fairly quiet weather for the next few days as well.

Authorities were working to determine its last known coordinates. Unalakleet is a community of about 690 people in western Alaska, about 150 miles (about 240 kilometers) southeast of Nome and 395 ...