Russia sold Alaska to the United States for just $7.2 million, about two cents per acre. Today, many historians and analysts call it one of the greatest strategic mistakes in Russian history. But why ...

An unexpected Alaskan adventure ...

Alaska Airlines is expanding its fresh food selection, offering its popular dishes on more flights from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and various other airports. The carrier aims to offer its ...

For the last year, Alaska's Mount Spurr has been showing signs of a potential eruption on the horizon. If an eruption happens, it would likely occur at Crater Peak, shown in the background of this ...

An Alaska woman and her dog were attacked by a moose while hiking in Kincaid Park. The woman’s 15-year-old dog, Daisy, repeatedly intervened to protect her and was fatally injured. The woman ...

The Trump administration plans to lift environmental protections on roughly half of the National Petroleum Reserve on Alaska’s North Slope, reopening the area to possible oil and gas drilling. The new ...

Alaska Airlines will launch nonstop flights between Seattle and Rome next year, continuing its global expansion and directly connecting the two cities via nonstop flight for, the airline says, the ...

Update 6/3/25 5:06 p.m: On Tuesday afternoon, the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development released documents updating the status of the proposed regulation. Now the board must decide ...

Alaska has never been short of energy resources, being home to the single biggest oil discovery in U.S. history, Prudhoe Bay. Getting those barrels pumped and sold, however, has always required a ...

The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is an ecologically sensitive expanse of land about 600 miles north of Anchorage, bounded by the Chukchi Sea to the west and the Beaufort Sea to the north.

The plan would open up 11 million acres to drilling and remove conditions, including protections for sensitive ecological areas, on oil and gas leases in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

Top Trump officials visit prolific Alaska oil field amid push to expand drilling The head of the U.S. Energy Department says President Donald Trump wants to double the amount of oil coursing ...