A radio station owner and his two friends were killed after heli-skiing onto a rugged Alaskan mountain and getting trapped in ...

A large winter storm pushed across California on Thursday as other parts of the West prepared for heavy snow and rain.

Authorities in Alaska say they will attempt Thursday to reach the site of an avalanche that trapped three skiers earlier this week ...

Alaska State Troopers were unable to assess the site but said they do not believe the three skiers survived the avalanche.

Each winter, 25 to 30 people die in avalanches in the U.S., according to the National Avalanche Center. Alaska ranks second ...

Alaska Wildlife Troopers said an avalanche buried three skiers under a blanket of snow between 40 and 100 feet deep in a ...

Tony Dauksza became the first person to navigate the Northwest Passage in anything other than a ship. This is the story of ...

Officials said the multi-vehicle crash happened around 8:50 a.m. between Lakota Drive and the North Entrance to Winter Park Drive. The Fraser Winter Park Police Department reported that a 2008 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The world’s most famous sled dog race is longer this year than ever before.

Permafrost underlies the surface of one-quarter of the globe’s land and more than half of Alaska. That frozen ground would seem to stall microbes — especially in winter — but scientists have ...