All weather-related wildcards aside, hiking in Alaska is different from hiking in other states. Trails are long, remote, and tend to cover far more difficult ground than that of the Lower 48: steep, ...

Alaska’s wilderness is legendary, stretching across 57.5 million acres of towering peaks cloaked in snow, verdant forests, rivers carved by glaciers, and untamed land where wildlife thrives ...

Feb. 15—An avalanche south of Summit Lake on the Kenai Peninsula killed a 28-year-old backcountry skier from Anchorage on Tuesday afternoon and injured two others as high winds earlier in the week led ...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Poor habitat is responsible for a diminished moose population in an area that spans most of the northern Kenai Peninsula, and it’s unlikely to improve in the coming years, a Kenai ...

Americans who want to witness the awe-inspiring vistas of fjords may think they need to board a plane to Norway or Greenland. But that’s not necessary. People can put away their passports and go to ...

All weather-related wildcards aside, hiking in Alaska is different from hiking in other states. Trails are long, remote, and tend to cover far more difficult ground than that of the Lower 48: steep, ...