An Anchorage man recently stumbled across an offensive name of a creek on the Aleutian Islands left over from World War II, and now he's on a mission to change it.
Alaska’s two senators expressed frustration with the Biden administration’s latest attempt to preserve state lands at the cost of resource development.
Nearly two months after a jury convicted Brian Smith on 14 charges related to the murders of two Alaska Native women, the South African national was charged this week with unlawfully obtaining U.S. citizenship.
In this week’s Weather Lab, Chief Meteorologist Melissa Frey steps off the weather green screen and into the Goldenview production studio where the students give her a behind-the-scenes tour and let her co-anchor the news for the day.
The Biden administration said Friday it will restrict new oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres (5.3 million hectares) of a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska to help protect wildlife such as caribou and polar bears as the Arctic continues to warm.
Sea ice is vital in Alaska. It's used as a hunting platform, protects coastal communities from winter storm and is considered a good measure of a changing climate. UAF Geophysical Institute researchers are testing a drone-mounted tool to measure the depth of sea ice.
