The declaration gives the far-north community of Utqiagvik access to state money to help repair damaged infrastructure like roads.

The state's small farms are booming amid longer growing seasons and thriving farmers markets. But climate change has also made for less predictable weather.

About a year ago, Tununak opened a $19 million, state-of-the-art airport, but shifting permafrost is buckling the runway.

It's open season on Atlantic salmon as the public is urged to help mop up a salmon spill from an imploded net pen holding 305,000 fish at a Cooke Aquaculture fish farm near Cypress Island.

Alaskans from St. Lawrence Island were hospitalized with the food-borne parasite trichinella, which used to more typically infect pork. The CDC and state public health officials issued warnings.

The significant explosive eruption started around 10 a.m. Monday, the Alaska Volcano Observatory reported.

Some are concerned about the farmed Atlantic salmon coming to Alaska and bringing unwelcome competition for native species.

Beetles that killed millions of acres of trees in the 1990s were a first sign of climate change. In a new flare-up, they continue marching north as Alaska warms.

The bear got into the facility through a door trucks use to access the building, a USPS spokeswoman said.

Several hundred Pacific walruses have started to gather on an island off the northwest coast of Alaska — the earliest the animals have been observed leaving the water for the annual ritual, according to federal wildlife officials.

To varying degrees, nearly the entire state was warmer than normal this July, according to a weather expert.

Canadian researchers learned that local Inuvialuit hunters had spotted beavers in the region in 2008 and 2009. Those sightings are the first documented signs of North American beaver occupancy on the Beaufort coastal plain.

Skagway set an all-time record high temperature of 93 degrees, and other records were broken across Southeast Alaska.

Residents who have long depended on chinook salmon to fill drying racks and smokehouses are worried about their food for next winter.

The country's 3,300 miles of ice roads are a lifeline for marooned communities during frigid winters, but climate change is making the roads unsafe much earlier.

At Friday's and Saturday's Cook Inlet Conference championships, they were challenged by some of the toughest courses set for high school skiers in recent years.

Land's End Resort was built more than 50 years ago, and during that time, the Homer Spit has changed dramatically. A change in the direction and intensity of winds may be driving the faster erosion.

Sea star wasting disease, a type of densovirus, reduced the count of sea stars in Kachemak Bay from 180 last spring to a measly five this year.

For the second time in three years, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will move its official start from Willow to Fairbanks due to poor trail conditions that race officials determined unsafe.

The 2007 fire was probably the first for that area in 6,500 years, according to scientific evidence examined later, Higuera said. But the wait for the next big burn won't be nearly as long, according to the evidence gathered in the study.