Alaska philanthropist Mary Louise Milligan Rasmuson died Monday at her home in Anchorage at the age of 101. Her interests ranged from health care, the homeless and Native culture to… Click to Continue »

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Seavey. Mackey. Baker. It was a day for champions Saturday at Iditarod Headquarters in Wasilla, where six past winners were among the 54 who signed up for the 2013 sled-dog… Click to Continue »

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The chance of building a bridge from Ketchikan to its airport on Gravina Island is remote, according to former Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski, given the project’s national stigma as “the… Click to Continue »

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A shallow avalanche on Alaska’s Mount McKinley may not have killed four Japanese climbers, but the slide pushed them into a crevasse more than 100 feet deep, the National Park… Click to Continue »

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Fears of an imminent Greek exit from Europe’s joint currency receded Sunday after the conservative New Democracy party came first in a critical election and pro-bailout parties won enough seats… Click to Continue »

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A Gold Rush-era mystery could soon be solved, with a recent federal court decision approving a Washington state man’s plans to recover cargo from the sunken luxury liner SS Islander… Click to Continue »

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Four Japanese mountain climbers are believed dead following an avalanche early Thursday morning on North America’s tallest peak. Click to Continue »

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After finding pieces of an old military plane and what are thought to be fragments of its occupants’ bones scattered across a glacier east of Anchorage last week, military investigators… Click to Continue »

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The excesses of the Nixon era ushered in a series of wide-ranging restrictions on the use of money in campaigns, but the intervening decades have also brought changes that have… Click to Continue »

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The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. did not order the sale of holdings in companies that do business in Iran or with the Iranian government after Gov. Sean Parnell called for… Click to Continue »

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