To many casual onlookers, the Iditarod is a weird curiosity. The famed sled-dog race, which begins this year on March 1, tasks mushers with trekking roughly 1,000 miles across the snowy Alaskan ...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory is monitoring Mount Spurr and the Atka Volcanic Complex for signs of unrest. Residents are ...

Four people were rescued from a fire Friday morning at a vacant former hotel in Spenard, the Fire Department said. No one ...