The Latest Breaking News from Alaska

WASHINGTON — Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski testified in support of the Equal Rights Amendment at a Senate hearing this week, opposite a fellow GOP senator who opposes it.

The second half-century for the world’s most famous sled dog race is getting off to a rough start

The Biden administration is weighing approval of a major oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope that supporters say represents an economic lifeline for Indigenous communities but environmentalists say runs counter to President Joe Biden’s climate goals

The remote Ambler Mining District contains massive lodes of minerals essential to cleantech, but extracting them will likely make an ecological mess.

A bustling and busy town in Kennicott, Alaska, US, once attracted thousands of miners from 1905 until 1938 and was responsible for over $200million of copper and nine million ounces of silver

In 2006, Geoff rode a Triumph Tiger 955i the 16,500 miles of the Pan-American Highway from Chile to Alaska, then had to hand it over to the local dealer in an emotional farewell. Now he’s on a mission to bring it home. Watch this space...

Shocking comments came as lawmakers discussed effects of child abuse on larger society

The Anchorage, Alaska, school system has reached an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to stop placing students with disabilities in seclusion and to restrain them only if there is imminent danger of them causing harm to themselves or other persons. A federal investigation accused the school system of inappropriate…

JUNEAU, Alaska — The Alaska House of Representatives voted Wednesday to reprimand Republican state Rep. David Eastman of Wasilla after he asked during a committee hearing whether there could be economic benefits from the deaths of abused children.

JUNEAU, Alaska — Wasilla Republican Rep. David Eastman sparked outrage online after asking whether there could be economic benefits from the death of abused children.

A woman walking her dog on a snowy sidewalk in Alaska was kicked in the head by a moose charging down the same sidewalk.