Alaska

A man named Santa Claus, who is currently a two-time city council member for North Pole, Alaska, has filed to run for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat on a platform similar to Bernie Sanders’.

Billy Ray Macon Sr. graduated from high school in 1961. The school district made sure the teen knew he barely passed despite being a working father and husband.

The opal, dubbed the “Americus Australis,” weighs more than 11,800 carats, according to the auction house Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals.

The sun has set on Utqiaġvik, Alaska, and won’t rise again until January 22, 2022.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who voted to convict former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, announced she will run for reelection.

Republican Sen. Lora Reinbold requested an excusal from the state Senate until mid-January, citing the challenges of traveling to Juneau from Anchorage after she was suspended from flying on Alaska Airlines.

The Southern and Northern lights pulled off spectacular shows in the skies over Tasmania and Alaska earlier this week.

A tsunami warning and advisory issued for parts of Alaska after a large earthquake struck off the coast of the peninsula was lifted early Thursday morning.

Boaters got a "killer" view when they spotted this orca whale in Alaska.

Alaska has become the first state in the country where eligibility requirements were dropped for the COVID-19 vaccine. Now, anyone 16 and older who lives or works in the state can get it.

“I opened the toilet seat and there’s just a bear face just right there at the level of the toilet seat, just looking right back up through the hole, right at me."

An Alaska department plans to investigate the issuance of license plates in the state that were personalized to read “3REICH."

Health officials in Alaska have reported that a second health care worker had an adverse reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine.

A woman had an allergic reaction that included flushing and shortness of breath within 10 minutes of receiving the first of Pfizer's two-dose COVID-19 vaccine.

Two sizeable earthquakes shook several communities in the North Pacific off the coast of Alaska.

Berkowitz, 58, noted that his conduct did great injury to his wife, their family, his staff and the people of Anchorage.

A hunter was attacked and killed by a grizzly bear in an Alaska state park – a first in the nature preserve, officials announced.

The Trump administration on Monday took another step to opening Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling for oil and gas, potentially fulfilling a decades-long dream for Republicans.

A powerful 7.8 earthquake struck the Alaska Peninsula late Tuesday, triggering a tsunami warning that sent residents fleeing to higher ground before it was called off without any damaging waves.