Hundreds of Chugach Electric customers in Anchorage and Girdwood remained without power Wednesday morning amid outages from Fairbanks to Nikiski.

High wind warning for Anchorage. Winds could reach 50 mph with gusts to 100 mph.

Freak warm weather followed by a freeze in winter 2013-14 caused an ice-over of pastures which led to the deaths of some 70,000 reindeer in a famine. This summer, there was an outbreak of deadly anthrax after the hottest Arctic summer on record.

Cause for Drying Uncertain

Strange and unusual plant located in Nulato on northwest bank of the Yukon River.

Rare monarch caterpillar-butterfly (Danaus plexippus) seen in five years.

Severe turbulence, which recently forced the emergency landing of a transatlantic flight, is on the rise. But why and what can be done?

Young moose eating rose hips.

Blue-footed booby nesting on San Jeronimo Island.

Bumblebees (bombus polaris), moths, butterflies, mosquitoes (Culicidae) and gnats (Nematocera) are still here.

Ponds in and around the Nome area are drying up.

First toad sighting in years.

Resident becomes sick after consuming oysters and wonders what is being done to prevent future outbreaks of V parahaemolyticus, this new climate related illness in Alaska.

Commercial and Subsistence Harvest

It seems very warm when the sun comes out.

But at least there is a stream...