Agencies monitoring wildfires in Alaska have downgraded the state to Preparedness Level 3 (PL3) as of Wednesday morning.Aug.

According to a statement, this change will allow offices in Fairbanks and Juneau to communicate heat information more effectively. Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, has opted out for now.

Emergency dispatch officials in Fairbanks, Alaska, the interior’s most populous city, have moved to a cloud-based communications platform for increased resiliency. Doing so enables staff to work ...

Near Fairbanks, two lightning-caused fires northwest of the Salcha River on Thursday combined into one, 300-acre blaze burning in black spruce with “active flame fronts,” according to an ...

The National Weather Service issued its first-ever heat advisory in Alaska on Friday. The advisory, a warning to the public of warm weather expected in the Fairbanks area on Sunday, is the first ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) office in Fairbanks, Alaska, issued a heat advisory on Thursday, June 12. It’s never had to do that before.

In Alaska, where hazardous cold is historically more of a concern, weather offices in Fairbanks — just 120 miles south of the Arctic Circle as the raven flies — didn’t have the option of ...

Preserved pollen and spores that plants leave behind have settled at the bottom of the lake, which allows scientists to study ...

Alaska is currently the nation's highest priority for wildfire response as the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center is at preparedness level four. More than 950 firefighting personnel are in ...

There’s also $7.5 million in funding to keep the Fairbanks Metropolitan Area Transportation System, or FMATS, projects moving ahead as well as funding for borough road service area projects.

The Trump administration said on Monday that it planned to eliminate federal protections across millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness, a move that would allow drilling and mining in some of the ...