A golden spike that completed the Alaska Railroad is up for auction. Alaskans want to bring it home
Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago ...
As South digs out from brutal storm, Florida cities still more frigid than Alaska
The rare Southern storm prompted this headline from the Anchorage Daily News: "Hey, New Orleans, please send some of your ...
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University of Alaska Anchorage Chancellor Sean Parnell set to retire
University of Alaska President Pat Pitney appointed Parnell in 2021, and praised his leadership and service as chancellor of ...
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Fairbairn, Duffus lead UAA gymnastics to victory in home opener
The UAA team was reinstated fully in 2022 after being targeted for elimination by the Alaska Board of Regents. So head coach ...
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Rolling blackouts could loom for urban Alaska as natural gas crunch intensifies
The Homer Electric Association recently secured an “interruptible” gas agreement for the next year — meaning that it could ...
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Major weekend rainfall ‘from the tropics’ to splash Southcentral Alaska
Anchorage, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and the Kenai Peninsula are under a flood watch from Friday morning through Monday ...
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Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority chooses new chief executive
Dr. Mary Wilson, a pediatrician who grew up in Anchorage, was chosen by the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority’s board to ...
Invasive freshwater fish able to swim through Alaska’s Cook Inlet, study proves
In the fall of 2018, officials with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and their partners celebrated what they thought was a milestone: an end to the infestation of invasive northern pike in the ...
Alaska pummeled by hurricane-force winds near 130 mph as widespread damage seen in Anchorage
The largest populated city in Alaska is still recovering from the hurricane-force winds that battered homes and ...
Warm, 'incredibly wet' weather could lead to weekend flooding in Southcentral Alaska
It may be January, but the unusually warm, rainy weather feels more like spring breakup, and it's bringing the kind of flooding concerns also usually not seen in the Anchorage area until later in the ...
Florida saw more snow this week than Anchorage, Alaska. Here's the weekend forecast
Expect temperatures to get warmer during the days through the weekend, but overnight lows will still be freezing for most of ...