Wesley Early

The Chugach Mountain Range in winter as seen from near the summit of Wolverine Peak in Anchorage, Alaska.

The judge ordered the Anchorage School District to hold a public hearing no later than May 15 to address its decision to close Campbell STEM Elementary.

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski held a roundtable in Anchorage with Interior Department officials Tuesday to hear from Kipnuk and Kwigillingok leaders about challenges the communities still face and ideas for how to move forward.

There have been concerns for decades around residents allowing local bears to get into trash cans or bird feeders. But it was this series of eagle encounters that led Anchorage officials to recently add fines for those who feed wildlife in the city.

Officials with the 11th Airborne Division said the two soldiers were treated for their wounds at an Anchorage hospital and remained on leave more than three weeks after the incident as they continued to receive medical care.

Judge Una Gandbhir said the school district had complied with a May 1 order, and she dissolved an injunction that temporarily paused the district’s efforts to close the school.

More than a decade after the Pikka field ushered in what industry leaders called a renaissance on Alaska's North Slope, the first sellable oil is expected to come from that field soon.

Police Chief Sean Case said three officers fired on an armed man early Tuesday, killing him.

After allowing an old public safety commission to sunset in 2024, the Assembly will soon take up plans for a new commission that advocates hope will “put the public back in public safety.”

Firefighters respond to a wildfire in South Anchorage near 100th Avenue on May 19, 2026.