A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, prompting Japan's meteorological agency to issue a tsunami alert and the National Weather Service to issue a tsunami warning for the state of Hawaii and parts of Alaska on Wednesday.

"A beautiful day recreating on Delong Lake turned tragic when a person realized a friend out paddleboarding vanished," the Anchorage Fire Department (AFD) said in a news release . The caller reported that the man, who has not yet been publicly identified, hadn't been seen for about 15 minutes and wasn't wearing a life jacket.

As a precaution, some flights already en route to Hawai‘i are being redirected back to the mainland or diverted to alternate locations.

A 2018 law aimed at improving outcomes for kids in Alaska’s foster care system hasn’t led to meaningful progress, according to a recent audit, leaving experts dismayed.

The U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center has issued tsunami alerts across the U.S. West Coast following a Magnitude 8.0 earthquake near eastern Russia, in the North Pacific Ocean.

Guzman, 41, is being held at the ICE facility in Tacoma as she awaits a bond hearing next week. Coyotl, a University of Alaska Anchorage student hoping to become an air-traffic controller, said his parents moved to Alaska in 2003. They didn’t come to ...