Fishing businesses in Mat-Su warned that the rules could hurt the state's tourism economy.

Authorities warned that drivers should use caution in the area due to the potential for additional rockslides.

Looking over a longer time span, bears in the southern Beaufort Sea are now using land to an extent they haven’t used it historically,” a researcher said.

Days of rain have triggered flooding in Cordova and slowed drivers on the Taylor Highway and McCarthy Road.

The whale is located in an inaccessible place where scientists are unable to take a necropsy.

The National Weather Service forecast wind gusts up to 50 mph in some places and whiteout conditions.

The fall of a climber into a crevasse highlighted this season's risky combination of crumbling snow bridges and splintered climbing teams.

Some are concerned about the farmed Atlantic salmon coming to Alaska and bringing unwelcome competition for native species.

Lenny didn’t have a wound on him but hasn’t been the same since, his owner says.

The tragedy came after several days of dire warnings about the dangers of river travel due to an unusually early warm-up. Search and rescuers crawled onto weak ice, open water all around, to help retrieve the survivors.

The rehabilitation center in Seward doesn’t usually get bearded seals, which live much farther north.

The state's small farms are booming amid longer growing seasons and thriving farmers markets. But climate change has also made for less predictable weather.

Dead, red trees signal an increasingly dire outbreak driven by warm summers and plentiful spruce, especially in the Susitna Valley.

Monitors picked up a small explosion and ash cloud from Mount Cleveland volcano on Friday morning.

Experts say brown or grizzly bears attack and kill people far more often in Alaska than black bears. Authorities say black bears killed a 16-year-old runner at Bird Ridge over the weekend and a Pogo Mine contractor Monday.

Sea star wasting disease, a type of densovirus, reduced the count of sea stars in Kachemak Bay from 180 last spring to a measly five this year.

One boat lost its net while at least two other fishermen say giant waves threatened to capsize their vessels as they tried to reach safe harbor.

The bear tunneled under the zoo’s perimeter fence and broke through the cedar split rail fence around the alpaca enclosure before killing Caesar, according to the zoo’s executive director, Pat Lampi. Another alpaca -- Fuzzy Charlie -- was found unhurt though wide-eyed and skittish.

As of Friday afternoon, the sockeye escapement in the Chignik salmon fishery was less than half of what it usually is this time of the year.

The latest tally of beetle kill shows more than 550,000 acres of forest with dead spruce from the ongoing infestation this year alone, much of it in Mat-Su.