Alaska

The non-profit says that the Ambler Mining Road would disrupt Western Arctic caribou migration, cross over hundreds of rivers and streams, and interfere with the subsistence lifestyles of rural Alaskans.

At least one NRA director privately expressed concerns about the alleged extravagance of the Alaska trip.

The passenger—who has not yet been named—was rescued on Wednesday morning from the Oosterdam, a Holland America Line liner that was en-route to Yakutat, Alaska.

The attack, which was reported to state troopers at around 7 p.m., ended after the person's hunting partner shot the animal.

The latest moves could potentially open up more than half of Alaska's Tongass National Forest to logging, mining and energy projects.

An Alaska man found a message in a bottle that had been tossed into the water by a Russian sailor 50 years earlier, according to reports.

"This is the earliest date that large numbers of walruses have been confirmed on shore at Point Lay," said Andrea Medeiros, a spokeswoman for the the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Authorities sent a tug guard to escort the cruise ship back to Seattle.

Issues related to understaffing and lack of funding has forced the coastal town of Stebbins to drastically relax their hiring standards for police officers.

The animal was shot and killed because it was trying to eat "improperly stored whale meat," prosecutors alleged.

The University of Alaska said it would make every attempt to ensure students could complete their program, but said it may not be possible.

"We saw that microbial communities respond quite rapidly—within four or five years—to even modest levels of warming," said an author of the study.

On the Fourth of July, temperatures in Anchorage, Alaska reached 90 degrees for the first time ever, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

Small boats in the bay rushed to the aid of those aboard the aircraft, which came in to land close to the city of Ketchikan.

Under federal law, vessels must keep at least 100 yards from humpback whales in Alaska.

"Let us embrace the impulse to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil so that we may let go of comforting delusions and see the truth in the world. It is done, hail Satan. Thank you."

Darin Schilmiller has been indicted along with five others in relation to the killing of 19-year-old Cynthia Hoffman on June 2.

The Alaskan Coast Guard rescued a 61-year-old woman on Tuesday and a 62-year-old woman on Wednesday.

The whales, capable of diving thousands of feet into the ocean, are little-understood by scientists.

Mainland Alaska and mainland Russia are only roughly 55 miles apart, and the two share a chain of islands known as the Aleutian Islands, meaning such incidents are not unprecedented.

The men did not know they were being filmed.

The jury held Royal Caribbean 70 percent responsible for the passenger's death.

"For now, the working hypothesis is that I will run it as long as I can be competitive doing it."

"NORAD's top priority is defending Canada and the United States," General Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy, the NORAD commander, said.

The flight flew from Boston to Buffalo and back again before passengers finally got on a plane that would take them to L.A.

It was just trying to keep warm.

Four million people living in the Arctic permafrost area will be affected by damage to infrastructure.

The quake struck about nine miles away from the largest city in the state.

Ice Poseidon claimed he was shot at in Alaska, which caused him to drive off-road and into a ditch.

Research has revealed fascinating new details about the ancient history of the Americas.