Alaska

Video footage, recorded by a local resident, shows the giant snowman with a corn cob pipe, a button nose, two eyes, a scarf and mittens.

"He just stopped, turned and looked at us to say, ‘Please tell me you didn’t record that.’”

Video captured a vibrant “watermelon aurora” shimmering across the night sky above Alaska. 

At least three people are dead as search and recovery crews continue to scour through debris from a landslide that impacted properties outside of Wrangell, Alaska, on Monday.

Spectacular video from an Alaska couple shows the "wild ice" skaters gliding over a frozen lake so clear, it felt more like snorkeling than skating.

Santa’s ride, an Alaska Army National Guard Black Hawk helicopter, was shuttling Santa, Mrs. Claus and volunteer elves when they got an urgent call.

Video captured beautiful auroral beads dancing across a star-filled sky in Alaska. 

While a rocket launching into the northern lights puts on a spectacular show, it wasn’t just by happenstance. The timing of this launch had to be just right to get the necessary scientific data.

The young humpback whale had been stuck, swimming in an uncomfortable circle for days, anchored in place by a 300-lb. crab pot.

Fat Bear Week celebrates Katmai's brown bear population's resilience, adaptability, and strength as the animals prepare to hibernate, according to the National Park Service.

The soldiers were identified as specialists who joined the U.S. Army in July 2020.

This portliest time of the year is an annual celebration of the Brooks River brown bears and how they utilize their healthy and abundant ecosystem to pack on the pounds before winter hibernation.

Alaska's annual dividend now competes for funding with services like public education, health care programs and public safety.

A small plane that crashed in rural Alaska earlier this month, killing the husband of U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, was carrying more than 500 pounds of moose meat and antlers from a remote hunting camp when it went down shortly after takeoff.

Two bears were caught on camera raiding a Krispy Kreme doughnut van on an Alaska military base.

The group saw one of the orcas perform “an impressive tail slap," launching both baby and mother otter into the air.

Weighing only up to 2 lbs., rock greenlings may not sound like an impressive catch. But once you see one, it’s clear these little fish are worthy of the chase. Would you eat it?

In a dramatic rescue in Alaska, a lost hiker was saved thanks to the vigilance of viewers who spotted him on a bear webcam.