After being buried, the trapped hiker was able to kick his legs free. A hiker passing by spotted his feet sticking out of the snow.
Seasonal swings set drivers up for bad trip.
Hundreds of people have combed the terrain near Big Lake, but there’s still no sign of LaVerne and Van Pettigen.
The storm that walloped Southcentral Alaska also left about 32 inches of snow in Moose Pass and 30 in Seward.
Though snow is scant in Anchorage, organizers are confident they will be able to host the Jan. 3-8 race series.
A National Weather Service employee spotted an ice jam that's causing some minor flooding northwest of the Starner Street bridge, along Peters Creek.
Norther pintails observered early in the Mat-Su Valley near the Glenn Highway-Parks Highway overpass.
A new study quantifies the rate at which Eklutna Glacier is losing its icy mass. Between 1957 and 2010, the loss of glacier mass averaged 5 percent a year.
Major changes with the environment are creating trail hazards, an official said. The ceremonial start for 74 sled-dog teams will remain in Anchorage on March 4.
For the second time in three years, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will move its official start from Willow to Fairbanks due to poor trail conditions that race officials determined unsafe.
After years of low snow and higher winter temperatures, Anchorage once again looks like a real northern city thanks to a heavy layer of frost.
It has been three years since the Anchorage ski jumping club has been able to hold our New Year competition.
Fast moving winter storm left about 4 to 5 inches of snow in the Hunter Creek area, a tributary of the Knik River.
Early spring and early waterfowl
Persistent warm temperatures the last few weeks have melted much of the snow, including stockpiles the city tried to set aside.
Winter transformed from time of snow to time of ice.
7-27-14 Summer snow - Wasilla, Alaska, USA
For the second year in a row, the Anchorage area set a new snowfall record. This year it wasn’t the amount of fluffy stuff that went down in the history books — last year Anchorage had more than 11 feet — but the days between the first and last snowfall.
We are having an unseasonable snow storm in southcentral Alaska.
There is a lot of overflow and flooding happening in Anchorage area streams, as a result of the recent record rain fall.
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