There is trouble on the horizon in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, where poor fishing conditions triggered by global ...

Mount Spurr, located about 75 miles West of Anchorage, has been acting up in recent weeks, prompting officials at the U.S.

NOME, Alaska — Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday.

Alaska has no statewide smoking ban. Instead, statewide smoking law generally requires the designation of smoking and nonsmoking areas and warning signage in most enclosed workplaces and public places ...

Arctic sea ice growth was slow in February, leaving extent at record-low levels for the end of the month. In the Antarctic, ...

The Alaska Division of Oil and Gas is offering leases for companies that might want to explore Augustine Volcano's geothermal ...

The Bering flight that vanished in the early hours ... and the plane never reached Minnesota. Over 75 U.S. and Canadian aircraft participated in the search for the missing plane, but neither ...

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will now start in Fairbanks, not Willow, due to a lack of snow, race officials announced Monday. The last-minute change follows alarms raised by some mushers over the ...

I hurled my new 75-liter Osprey backpack to the ground, plopped down on a shrub, and continued to type away. “Day 1: Eating a blue-raspberry Airhead (for sugar I guess?) in a dwarf birch,” I a ...

As a first, three Chinese icebreakers entered the Arctic via the Bering Straight last summer. Beijing, the new kid on the Arctic block, launched its Polar Silk Road initiative in 2018 to enhance China ...