Musher Paige Drobny, wearing the required face mask at the ceremonial Anchorage start of the 2022 Iditarod Treail Sled Dog Race on March 5, carried a pro-vaccine message on her way to Nome. A race ...

Alaska had the biggest decline in average life expectancy of all U.S. states in 2021, a year when health outcomes were heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent national ...

WASHINGTON – The Army's mental health emergency in Alaska spiked in 2021 with 17 suspected suicide deaths – more suicides than in the previous two years combined. The crisis has deepened in recent ...

Utqiagvik hunters Jared Nayakik and Billy Adams cut and packaged bricks of pink meat, sharing their whale harvest with everyone in the room. “The season was good for Barrow — we’ve landed quite a few ...

A 2021 legal battle between Alaskan Indigenous corporations, the Alaska Board of Fish and Game, and the Federal Subsistence ...

A study of two powerful earthquakes in adjacent areas off the Alaska Peninsula in 2020 and 2021 shows a connection between the two. It also suggests they may be a part of an 80-year rupture cascade ...

In late 2020 and early 2021, variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), began emerging worldwide. Variants ...

Alaska had the biggest decline in average life expectancy of all U.S. states in 2021, a year when health outcomes were heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent national ...