Alaska is packed to the gills with amazing outdoor destinations, but this small town is one of the best thanks to several ...

Each spring, local hunters sit on the edge of the ice and wait for whales—a custom that’s at least 1,000 years old.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An endangered fin whale that washed up near a coastal trail in Alaska’s largest city has attracted curious onlookers while biologists seek answers as to what caused the animal ...

Update, Wednesday: Volunteers with Vulcan Towing in Anchorage helped Museum of Alaska director James Grogan extract almost all of the remaining bones from a fin whale on Cook Inlet mudflats on Tuesday ...

When researchers learned the fossils were merely 1,900 to 2,700 years old—which would be the youngest woolly mammoth fossils ...