Emily Ford, the 34-year-old native of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, who now calls Duluth home, spent 13 days mushing her dogs along the Yukon River in Alaska in this year’s Iditarod race. Ford says it was a rigorous, yet peaceful course. “You [and the dogs] are an entire team moving together across the landscape,” said Ford….
A commuter plane that crashed on sea ice off Alaska, killing all 10 people on board, was half a ton overweight for a trip into icy conditions, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released Wednesday. Citing the Cessna operator’s log for the flight, the NTSB said in the report that baggage…
Former Gov. Bill Walker and China President Xi Jinping Republican US Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska is cosponsoring a bipartisan bill to curb investment in communist China. The Foreign Investment Guardrails to Help Thwart China Act or (FIGHT) would require Americans to notify the Treasury Department when they make certain investments in key Chinese tech…
Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska on Friday, celebrating with fist pumps to a cheering crowd and posing for photos with his two floral wreath-adorned head teammates, Hercules and Polar. Holmes was first to the finish line in the Gold Rush town of Nome,…
An avalanche in the Alaskan backcountry buried three skiers under at least 40 feet of snow, Alaska Wildlife Troopers said in a dispatch Wednesday. The blanket of debris could be as deep as 100 feet, they said, which is about the height of a 10-story building. Authorities said the massive avalanche occurred Tuesday afternoon near…
Russian warplanes were spotted flying near Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said Tuesday, marking at least the second incident involving Russian aircraft being tracked off the coast of the state since December. The Russian planes did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace, NORAD said, adding that the planes were “not seen as…
The Delta Air Lines crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday is the latest in a series of accidents this year that has spread anxiety among air travelers and prompted sharp criticism of American aviation regulators. Here are the three major U.S. accidents so far in 2025: American Airlines jet and Army helicopter collide…
Authorities have identified the 10 people – a pilot and nine passengers – who were killed on a small aircraft that initially went missing before crashing on sea ice off the western coast of Alaska this week. The bodies of the victims aboard the doomed Bering Air Flight were discovered Friday along with the plane’s…
The mortal remains of all 10 people killed in the crash of a regional single-engine airline flight on the Bering Sea in Alaska have been recovered, authorities said. The single-engine turboprop commuter plane crashed on an icy Bering Sea in Alaska. (AP) The turboprop plane, travelling from Unalakleet to the hub community of Nome, disappeared…
Recovery efforts for the remaining victims inside an aircraft that went missing near Nome, Alaska, are being dampened by “difficult conditions,” according to investigators. The wreckage of the Bering Air Flight 445 is on an ice floe that’s moving approximately 5 miles a day, National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy said at a news…