The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center opened the mission in response to an Alaska State Troopers request for assistance when the family’s boat became stuck on a sandbar in the river.

Congress’s one-size-fits-all bill doesn’t take into account the realities of life in Alaska.

New provisions that benefit whaling captains and rural hospitals appear to be aimed at winning over Senator Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who had said the bill would hurt her state.

After nearly 40 years in Alaska’s state Capitol, Sen. Lyman Hoffman is calling it quits. On Wednesday, the Bethel Democrat confirmed that he will not seek reelection in 2026 and will end a ...

Authorities are searching a University of Kentucky Healthcare employee who got off a cruise ship and did not return.

A big drop in crude prices year over year leaves Alaska, reliant on oil for revenue, at the bottom of CNBC’s annual Top States for Business rankings.

A family was stranded for nearly 24 hours on the Kuskokwim River during a storm and was rescued by the Alaska Army National Guard and a trooper, officials said.

A 14-year-old girl was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, shot at and left in the woods by a convicted sex offender in Alaska, officials said, and she got free by chewing the duct tape binding her hands.