The Homer Spit—a skinny 4.5-mile finger of land pointing into the bay—is Alaska’s version of a peninsula, except instead of tourist traps, you get fresh-caught seafood that will ruin restaurant fish ...

The Stikine River delta near town offers some of the best wildlife viewing in Southeast Alaska, with massive gatherings of bald eagles and one of the largest springtime concentrations of migrating ...

Winter transforms the American wilderness into a landscape of stark beauty and profound silence. Snow blankets the ground, ...

Bush-pilot lore celebrates the humor, quick thinking, grace under pressure and flying skills that sum up what it means to be ...

"I want to get the emotional feeling of being in a place,” John Jodwalis said, describing both his paintings that depict outdoor vistas of Alaska, and the manner in which these views inspire him. He ...

Alaska is the most earthquake-prone region in the U.S. A 6.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Alaska early Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck at 8:11 a.m. local ...

Stacker compiled a list of the most common birds seen near feeders in Alaska using data from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Project FeederWatch. Birds are ranked by the percent of sites visited from ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — The Trump administration on Thursday finalized plans to open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to potential oil and gas drilling, renewing a long-simmering ...

Typhoon Halong was an unusual storm, likely fueled by the Pacific's near-record warm surface temperatures this fall. Its timing means recovery will be even more difficult than usual for these hard-hit ...

One of the most significant airlifts in Alaska history was underway Wednesday to move hundreds of people from coastal villages ravaged by high surf and strong winds from the remnants of Typhoon Halong ...

Two Alaskan villages were destroyed by remnants of a powerful typhoon that swept homes off their foundations, killed at least one person and displaced more than 1,400 people. Typhoon Halong barreled ...

The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated. By Maxine Joselow and Lisa Friedman Five months before catastrophic floods swept through ...