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Experts and recovery teams hope to reach site of Alaska avalanche that buried 3 skiers
Authorities in Alaska said they would attempt Thursday to reach the site of an avalanche that trapped three skiers, who were believed to have died after being buried in snow.
Avalanche buries at least 3 skiers near Anchorage, Alaska, officials say
An avalanche in Alaska backcountry swept up and buried three skiers under a blanket of snow that could be as deep as a 10-storey building, Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday.
Alaskans say Trump can change name of Denali but can't make people call it Mount McKinley
The U.S. president's move last week to rename North America's tallest peak has introduced 'a jarring note' into Alaska affairs, says one academic.
U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for crew of capsized fishing boat in Gulf of Alaska
The search for five people believed to be aboard a fishing vessel that capsized in rough seas in the Gulf of Alaska has been suspended, the Coast Guard said Monday.
'It's a bird! It's a plane!' In Alaska, it's both, with a pilot dropping turkeys off to rural homes
In the remotest reaches of Alaska, there's no relying on DoorDash to have Thanksgiving dinner — or any dinner — delivered. But some residents living well off the grid nevertheless have turkeys this holiday, thanks to the Alaska Turkey Bomb.
U.S. Navy apologizes for the 1882 obliteration of a Tlingit village in Alaska
Shells fell on Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. Now, 142 years later, the perpetrator of the bombardment — the U.S. Navy — has apologized.
Alaska's Fat Bear Contest winner finishes ahead of the bear that killed her cub
In a storyline better befitting a melodrama than a popularity vote, Grazer won her second Fat Bear Contest Tuesday by defeating the male behemoth that killed her cub this summer.
Startling video shows Russian fighter jet flying within feet of U.S. F-16 near Alaska
Military officials have released new video of a startling encounter between a Russian fighter jet flying near Alaska and a U.S. Air Force F-16 sent to intercept it.
U.S. troops finish deployment to remote Alaska island amid spike in Russian military activity
About 130 U.S. soldiers are returning to their bases after being deployed last week to a remote Alaska island with mobile rocket launchers amid a spike in Russian military activity off the western reaches of the U.S., a military official said Thursday.
U.S. moves soldiers to Alaska island as Russian military activity increases in the area
The U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in the Aleutian chain of western Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and vessels approaching American territory.