Senate Bill 277, introduced last week, would increase Alaska’s annual $1.3 billion public school budget by roughly $100 ...

New investigators, rural enforcement and survivor support programs are strengthening the state’s response to sexual assault.

Alaska commercial fishers caught much more salmon in 2025 than they did last year, but the money they earned was modest, according to the statewide harvest report. The state commercial salmon haul ...

A sign at an Anchorage Fred Meyer store, seen on Tuesday, gives information about the availability of vaccines for influenza and other respiratory diseases. The annual flu season starts each fall.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 12—Alaska officials continue seizing record-setting volumes of illegal drugs, much of it through ramped-up efforts at the ...

Alaska is perhaps better known for snow and ice than it is fire. But new research shows the Last Frontier has been hit by more wildfires over the last century than at any other time since the rule of ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (ALASKA BEACON) - Alaska’s population rose slightly between 2024 and 2025 and is now at its highest level since 2017, the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development ...

Fewer Alaska babies were born in 2024 than the year prior, continuing a yearslong decline in the state’s births and women’s fertility rates, a new report shows. There were 8,950 Alaska babies born ...

Engine 557 sits on rails in front of its home shop in Wasilla. The 557 Restoration Company fired up the old steam locomotive Nov. 8, 2025, for the first time since the 1950s. The last steam locomotive ...