Alaska’s Arctic Ocean shores had been known to hold oil in some capacity since the 1800s. Native Alaskans would cut blocks of ...

Shutterstock Extraordinary is a regular Tuesday here. Utqiagvik in Alaska is America’s North Pole. We’re talking midnight sun ...

The prairie dog caught in Trap 69 was angry. And who could blame her? After waking up in her burrow on a mid-September ...

Several hours later, NORAD said it also scrambled two F-16 fighter jets from Alaska to Greenland in order to "forward posture NORAD presence in the Arctic." The command said that move was "not in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Rescuers searched Friday for any sign of a plane that went missing while carrying 10 people across Alaska’s Norton Sound south of the Arctic Circle. The Bering Air Caravan ...

(AP Photo, File) The statue erected to honor “Balto” and other heroic sled dogs who carried serum to Nome, Alaska, through an ...

Since 1979, that means the Arctic has lost 726,000 square miles (1.88 million square kilometres) of sea ice - an area almost the same size as Alaska. In another important detail, scientists also ...

A new study reports that 34 percent of the Arctic-boreal zone (ABZ) is actually releasing more carbon than its storing, and that number climbs to 40 percent when considering wildfires. While this ...

(Photo by Kyle Joly/National Park Service) The Western Arctic Caribou Herd, once the biggest in Alaska, is faltering, having fallen from a high of 490,000 animals in 2003 to only 152,000 as of 2023.