A fin whale washed ashore on Anchorage’s mudflats over the weekend. By Nov. 18, it had started to freeze over. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) Whales hold a deep and an outsized role in ...

The search covered more than 108 square nautical miles, the Coast Guard said. The U.S. Coast Guard is suspending its search for five people who went missing after a fishing boat capsized near ...

The entrance to the All Ways Caring office in Midtown Anchorage, with signs in the window encouraging job applicants, is seen on Nov. 22. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) The first home care ...

In the remotest reaches of Alaska, there's no relying on DoorDash ... who live on the Yentna River about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northwest of Anchorage. They have stunning mountain views in ...

Other Alaska health care workers are members of different unions. Anchorage-based Alaska Laborers Local 341, for example, represents nurses and service workers at Alaska Regional Hospital and ...

Alaska Gear Company / Facebook Keim makes 30 to 40 turkey deliveries yearly, flying as far as 100 miles from her base north of Anchorage toward Denali’s foothills. Sometimes she enlists the help ...

"I grew up in Skwentna, Alaska, which is about 50 miles northwest of Anchorage," Keim said in a video about her efforts. "In the fall, in the freeze-up, families would be stuck out there because ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska--(BUSINESS WIRE)--More Alaskans will get high-speed, reliable, affordable internet thanks to Alaska Communications’ network expansion. Fast local service, delivered by locals ...

Richwine was processed at the University of Alaska Anchorage’s police department “to protect his privacy as an employee from others in the department and reduce the disruption for on-duty ...

Mark Schwantes, a big game hunter and commercial fishing captain, was getting set to take flight in a bush plane to Alaska’s capital, Anchorage, on Sept. 26 when when he noticed a flock of ...