From Eagle River to Wasilla, people on private wells are contending with cloudy water -- and worse.

Biologists blame the Blob of warm water in the Gulf of Alaska for poor sockeye returns that also led to the second lowest commercial harvest in 50 years.

The statewide average temperature in December was 19.4 degrees, 15.7 degrees above the 20th century average.

A September storm caused damage in Utqiagvik, and Gov. Bill Walker declared a disaster there last month.

Anchorage sidewalks were slick with ice and the roads were full of puddles because of unseasonably high temperatures.By mid morning the temperature had reached 46 degrees.

Previously, the dredging started around May and ran through October, but the past three winters it has started earlier and run longer.

Coyotes have killed at least three dogs in Seward, and police are trying to trap the predators before they get more.

The National Park Service said a 22-year-old Ohio man was salvaging moose meat when he was killed in the national park’s first recorded fatal bear mauling.

Shishaldin Volcano also erupted last month, sending ash over the Bering Sea.

Biologists say they’ve been unable to confirm several reported sightings, including one from a resident who’s sure a cougar showed up in his yard.

The man was walking his dogs on a well-used trail when he came across a sow with two cubs, a Fish and Game assistant area wildlife biologist said.

Forecasters say they are expecting significant coastal erosion from Utqiagvik to Unalakleet from the second severe-weather event to hit the region in three weeks.

The lodge at above 3,000 feet altitude on the Glenn Highway measured 6 to 8 inches of snow as of Monday morning -- and it was still falling.

A one-two punch of mid-May snow followed by a six-week drought cut the supply of Alaska-grown hay from Homer to Fairbanks by a third to a half, state Division of Agriculture officials say.

Fred Meyer is employing an aggressive pest-control plan after customers spotted mice in the store through Southcentral Alaska’s unusually warm summer.

Federal fire bosses are plotting a strategy to battle an unusually large early season wildland fire once it leaves military lands.

The third such bite in two years prompted a police warning in the Aleutian Islands town.

A 100-foot vessel, the Polar Bear, ended up aground on an island across a channel from the town.

An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak flew over the area of an oil spill in Shuyak Strait on Wednesday afternoon, but weather continued to hamper response efforts, the Coast Guard said.

Seismologists called the quake the most significant in the state’s largest city since 1964, in terms of how strong the ground itself shook.