Discover Palmer, Alaska, a mountain town with Swiss-style charm, glacier valleys, golden fall fields, and alpine trails that ...

Lakes and wetlands in the Kenai Peninsula of south-central Alaska are drying at a significant rate. The shift seems to be driven by climate change, and could endanger waterfowl habitats and hasten the ...

Canadian researchers say lakes and wetlands in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula are drying at a significant rate due to global warming. In a paper published in the August issue of the Canadian Journal of ...

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to polar bears, caribou and wolves — and may hold vast amounts of crude oil.

The big news this week on the interwebs was CNN’s Chris Cillizza writing how buying Alaska “didn’t work out so well” in a response to President Trump’s reported interest in buying Greenland. Cillizza ...

Somewhere over Southeast Alaska, just about every day of the year, one of three Coast Guard helicopters is on patrol or training. The H-60 Jayhawk is built to fly in bad weather, because that’s when ...

Their bodies cooling with the October air, wood frogs are now snug in leafy blankets all over Alaska. Down there inside those thumb-size frogs, even smaller creatures are hitching a ride. These tiny ...

After a lengthy approval process with the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, Aleutian Airways now is offering its 50-passenger Saab 2000 aircraft for charter flights. Operating charter flights ...

Clarification: A story in Saturday’s Web edition of the Empire stated that AWARE of Juneau supports Senate Bill 91, criminal sentencing reform. AWARE executive director Saralyn Tabachnick said the ...

Explore Alaska's 2025 state tax rates for income, sales, property, retirement, and more. Learn how Alaska compares nationwide ...

The Alaska-set thriller 'The Last Frontier' on Apple TV+ is part of a long line of series in snowy locales where the setting ...