Two hikers were hospitalized after fighting off a brown bear on an Alaskan trail, officials said Wednesday. The two people, who were not named by authorities, were about a quarter-mile up the Exit Glacier Trail in the Kenai Fjords National Park in Seward, Alaska, the state Department of Public Safety said in a news release….
U.S. fighter jets were scrambled Wednesday to identify and intercept four Russian warplanes flying near Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a statement. NORAD said two Russian Tu-95 long-range strategic bombers and two Su-35 fighter jets were flying in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), which is international airspace that abuts U.S….
The bracket for Fat Bear Week 2025 has been revealed, and 12 bears at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska are looking for votes from all over the world — but only one will be crowned the champion of the fat bears. For more than a decade, the Fat Bear Week contest has been…
US President Donald Trump’s summit in Alaska last month with Russian leader Vladimir Putin failed to revive long-stalled nuclear negotiations or advance efforts to preserve the last major arms control pact between Washington and Moscow, which is set to expire in February. Trump’s subsequent push for trilateral “denuclearisation” talks involving China elicited a firm refusal…
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region near Russia on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, prompting tsunami advisories for parts of Alaska. Initially, there was a tsunami advisory issued for Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, but it was canceled, according to the USGS. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region near Russia on Thursday, the U.S….
The family of a woman who was mauled by a bear last week outside of her home in Alaska said she had “simply stepped outside for a jog” when the animal attacked, dragging her roughly 100 feet down the road to a neighbor’s property. Anchorage-based CBS affiliate KTUU identified the woman as Ariean Fabrizio Colton, a resident…
Communities in this vast state are connected by the stories we share. Whether through the radio airwaves or the pages of a local newspaper, journalism helps us understand one another and navigate day-to-day life in Alaska. But journalism in all forms is under threat, and it’s a threat we can’t afford to ignore. The Alaska…
A woman suffered serious injuries when a bear attacked her outside of her home in southern Alaska, authorities said. The woman, 36, had left her house in Kenai, a coastal city some 150 miles southwest of Anchorage, at around 5:45 a.m. local time on Tuesday to go for a jog, according to the Alaska Department…
Russian military presence in the Arctic north What’s behind Moscow’s growing interest in the Arctic north? 04:12 The United States military scrambled fighter jets again Tuesday to track another Russian spy plane flying near Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said. It was the latest in a series of similar incidents within the Alaskan Air…
China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday it was “neither reasonable nor realistic” for Beijing to join trilateral nuclear disarmament talks reportedly discussed between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Trump told reporters on Monday that Washington and Moscow were discussing ways to reduce their nuclear arsenals, adding that he…