A lightning fire that started Thursday in the Mat-Su Valley was among dozens of new wildland blazes sparked around Alaska by thunderstorms, wind and high temperatures.

The crash took just 38 seconds. Not enough time to send a second mayday. Not enough time for 242 people onboard to escape. But we still don’t know what caused i ...

For surfers, dangerous seas can mean a whole range of different things. Are there dominant rip tides, pulling you away from ...

Because Alaska meteorologists were using scales set for the lower 48, which was too high, the state never reached the ...