Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Record temperatures and melting glaciers are changing Alaska right in front of the eyes of people who live and visit the state.

Every summer, people living near the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska, keep a close eye on the water level. When the river level begins to rise rapidly, it’s a sign that Suicide Basin, a small ...

The big news this week on the interwebs was CNN’s Chris Cillizza writing how buying Alaska “didn’t work out so well” in a response to President Trump’s reported interest in buying Greenland. Cillizza ...

After a lengthy approval process with the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, Aleutian Airways now is offering its 50-passenger Saab 2000 aircraft for charter flights. Operating charter flights ...

Canadian researchers say lakes and wetlands in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula are drying at a significant rate due to global warming. In a paper published in the August issue of the Canadian Journal of ...

Lakes and wetlands in the Kenai Peninsula of south-central Alaska are drying at a significant rate. The shift seems to be driven by climate change, and could endanger waterfowl habitats and hasten the ...

Their bodies cooling with the October air, wood frogs are now snug in leafy blankets all over Alaska. Down there inside those thumb-size frogs, even smaller creatures are hitching a ride. These tiny ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced a landmark partnership with GCI, Alaska's largest telecommunications company, to modernize its extensive DOCSIS ...

Somewhere over Southeast Alaska, just about every day of the year, one of three Coast Guard helicopters is on patrol or training. The H-60 Jayhawk is built to fly in bad weather, because that’s when ...

This press release is also available in French. Ottawa, September 28, 2005 – Lakes and wetlands in the Kenai Peninsula of south-central Alaska are drying at a significant rate. The shift seems to be ...

Hiking on Spencer Glacier in Alaska feels otherworldly, but it actually isn't that far away. Even though it takes a train ride, a van ride, a short hike and paddling in a kayak to get to the glacier ...

Clarification: A story in Saturday’s Web edition of the Empire stated that AWARE of Juneau supports Senate Bill 91, criminal sentencing reform. AWARE executive director Saralyn Tabachnick said the ...