Alaska

The U.S. Coast Guard says it’s searching for five people after a fishing boat reportedly capsized in rough weather and cold seas southwest of Alaska's capital city of Juneau.

Market forces combined with fishery collapses occurring in a rapidly changing environment caused Alaska’s seafood industry to lose $1.8 billion from 2022 to 2023, a new federal report said.

An Alaska national park’s annual celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest bears on the planet fatten up for their long winter slumber.

The weirs in Alaska’s rivers and elsewhere are crucial tools for managing fisheries.

Alaska’s permafrost is melting and revealing high levels of mercury that could threaten Alaska Native peoples.

Long-simmering tensions over the Alaskan capital's tourism boom are coming to a head over a new voter initiative aimed at giving residents a respite from the influx.

A team of four teenagers will push off from Victoria, B.C., point the bow of their 29-foot secondhand sailboat north and race 750 cold-water miles to Ketchikan, Alaska.

Cruise passengers visiting Alaska's capital city have rapidly increased in the last year, causing tension between businesses that rely on tourism and residents who are fed up with the increase in visitors.

Size is a strength, and the economic value of the industry rose in 2021 and 2022, but employment is declining and recent price collapses are worrisome, the report says.

The Supreme Court has rejected Alaska’s bid to revive a proposed copper and gold mine in the state's Bristol Bay region that was blocked by the Environmental Protection Agency.