Northwest crow (Corvus caurinus) pair nesting in Anchorage, possibly north of range.
Hundreds of people have combed the terrain near Big Lake, but there’s still no sign of LaVerne and Van Pettigen.
From Eagle River to Wasilla, people on private wells are contending with cloudy water -- and worse.
Seismologists called the quake the most significant in the state’s largest city since 1964, in terms of how strong the ground itself shook.
At least one car was on the ramp at the time of the quake, a photo of which circulated on social media Friday morning.
Spruce beetles damaged nearly 600,000 acres of forest in 2018, and the damage continues to grow.
The latest tally of beetle kill shows more than 550,000 acres of forest with dead spruce from the ongoing infestation this year alone, much of it in Mat-Su.
Erosion of Kincaid beach bluffs accelerated compared to previous years.
Lightning strikes seen Monday in Cook Inlet and on the Kenai Peninsula were heading toward South Anchorage, a meteorologist said.
Black bears have taken over a Juneau arboretum, shut down a fish-cleaning facility in Cordova and added to an unusually high year of bear kills in Anchorage, prompting one wildlife authority to call this summer the "craziest" year of bear encounters he's seen.
You're not imagining things: September's weather has been one for the record books, for both the warm weather and unusual streak of sunny days.
Discolored spruce (Picea sitchensis) needles
State transportation workers found wet ground may have contributed to the small landslide, despite the lack of recent rain.
"They are extremely fresh-looking, as if it were the springtime."
“We typically don’t see this type of pattern in September,” an Anchorage meteorologist said. Anchorage's record high temperature was broken on both Friday and Saturday. More...
Fewer wasp and mosquito interactions in Anchorage in 2018 than typical.
Fireweed Clearwing Moth (Albuna pyramidalis) found in south Anchorage.
Anchorage hit 80 degrees Tuesday night, beating a record set in 1979, according to the National Weather Service.
Michael Soltis’ death is the second fatal bear attack in the Anchorage municipality in two summers.
Dead, red trees signal an increasingly dire outbreak driven by warm summers and plentiful spruce, especially in the Susitna Valley.
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