Ash from the 1912 Novarupta eruption periodically hits the west side of Kodiak Island, Larsen Bay and Karluk, roughly 65 ...

The Limited Entry Act was created to manage open-access chaos. When Alaska gained statehood in 1959, there were no limits to who could fish. This led to ballooning participation, and by the early ...

The mission, designated NROL-174, lifted off at 3:33 p.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex 8 (SLC-8) at Vandenberg.

Now the typical rent in Alaska is about the same as the national median for the first time on record, and 19 states have higher rental prices, according to an analysis by state economists. That is a ...

Hidden in the footnotes of history books, these lesser-known leaders of Greek origin held great power over numerous countries ...

NOAA’s Alaska Science and Research Director said the agency will continue its mission to provide the science behind ...

State prosecutors have accused Kodiak fisher Duncan Fields and other ... allowing the family to bypass state limits on individual ownership. Alaska Beacon is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit ...

In Alaska’s northern Arctic region, one of the state's most remote and diverse regions geographically, lies the homeland of the Iñupiat and the St. Lawrence Island Yupik. Here, the terrain ...

Since 2008, only five Kodiak high jumpers have cleared 5 feet, 8 inches. The list is short — Karsten Schick, Michael Ma’inifo, Andreas Carros, Michael Hardy and Manny Silva.