Jeff Lowenfels has written a weekly gardening column for the ADN for more than 45 years. He earned the 2025 Gold Laurel Media ...

Alaska had the biggest decline in average life expectancy of all U.S. states in 2021, a year when health outcomes were heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent national ...

Failing to fund the federal transportation match risks lost projects, lost jobs and lost opportunity across the state.

Musher Paige Drobny, wearing the required face mask at the ceremonial Anchorage start of the 2022 Iditarod Treail Sled Dog Race on March 5, carried a pro-vaccine message on her way to Nome. A race ...

In 'My Name's Yours, What's Alaska?', the drag superstar reflects on how she turned 'being queer and femme' into her greatest strength and how to find positivity in all those awkward mistakes in life.

A young hemlock topples sideways out into the roadway, leaving only one side of the dirt road open. My dad drives around the tree. We’re heading to Earl West at the end of the main logging road, a ...

J.R. Pederson was 19 years old and fresh out of school at Dakota College in Bottineau, North Dakota, when the call of adventure led him away from the prairie and north to the rugged wilderness of ...

WE’RE PULLED OVER on a gravel bank in interior Alaska, peering down a series of Class IV rapids named the Toilet Bowl. There are five of us in three 30-year-old rafts. No one wants a swirlie. Only one ...

NORTH CAROLINA, USA — A North Carolina-based ministry is helping law enforcement couples take a free trip to Alaska. When a natural disaster happens, you've probably heard us talk about the Billy ...

WASHINGTON – Four soldiers in Alaska died by suicide in the past month, an alarming spike that came despite a surge in mental health resources to the Army posts there. In May, the Army sent more than ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Jeremy Swayman’s face lights up at the mention of Alaska. The Boston Bruins goalies typically don’t speak to reporters on game days, but on a recent trip to Buffalo, Swayman made an ...