A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range” by Michael Engelhard and “Glaciers are Alive,” written by Sitka author ...

If you were to hike across the North Slope 75 million years ago, you would think you were in a Louisiana bayou, writes.

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.