Early Tuesday morning, a rockslide crashed into Skagway’s largest cruise ship dock. It was the second slide event in less than two weeks and caused a pair of cruise ships to divert to other ports. Some Skagway residents are calling on the city and the private company that owns the dock to take action.

Russian River flooded last week in Kodiak leaving some residents scrambling to address the damage.

A landslide in Sitka early Monday afternoon stranded people on either end of the road system for about eight hours, but otherwise there no reports of damage or injuries.

During September, the average contiguous U.S. temperature was 66.3°F, 1.4°F above average.

A new report identifies climate change as one of the challenges facing transportation in Alaska's most famous national park.

Cloudberries observed in new area around Seldovia.

For centuries, marine species have moved around either by hitching ride on the hulls of ships or as stowaways in ballast water. In many instances, species have been deliberately introduced for aquaculture or other commercial purposes.

Earthquakes have rattled through Port Heiden more often than usual this year. Michael West is the State Seismologist with the Alaska Earthquake Center. He took a look to compare this year’s quake numbers with other years. Listen Now

Himalaya blackberry is an introduced, perennial, spreading shrub.

Decades have passed and ponds are drying up.

Unusually rainy year for Lower Kalskag this year.

Long-term consequences.

Coastal erosion near Cape Blossom

When 200 million metric tons of rock tumbled down a remote Southeast Alaska mountain in October, nobody was around to see it. But thanks to a beefed-up seismic network and a new system that can distinguish landslides from earthquakes, scientists knew it had happened.

High rainfall this month is being blamed for a major landslide near Sitka. The US Forest Service reports that a 100-acre slide came down in the Starrigavan Valley, about ten miles from town. The slide, and water damage to an ATV trail in the valley and other hiking trails elsewhere in Sitka -- all add up to a tough month for the agency.

Early fall weather conditions brought on an extreme storm surge in a Norton Sound community.

Sinkhole appears along road

Coastal erosion potential threat to community sewage lagoon.

9-24-13 Bluff erosion - St. Michael, Alaska

On a rising tide, a line of bubbles from the mud under the water of Ugashik Bay can be observed rising forcefully to the surface.