Why Does Alaska Have Interstate Highways? Looking at a highway map of Alaska, things pretty immediately look out of place.

The U.S.Geological Survey released the first digital geologic map of Alaska on Tuesday, providing land users, managers and scientists geologic information for the evaluation of land use in relation to ...

A view of the Stikine River near Wrangell and Petersburg. (Courtesy Cindi Lagoudakis) A geologist who has studied Southeast Alaska’s rocks and minerals for decades is creating a new geologic map of ...

Juneau residents study map proposals by the Alaska Redistricting Board at an open house event on Sept. 27. The board is hosting public hearings across the state and stopped in Anchorage on Monday.

In “The Big Gathering,” Molly prepares to go on a trip with her family! She begins planning by looking at a map of Alaska and pointing out where her friends live. Molly and her friends are going to ...

The source area and upper portion of a landslide runout at Pedersen Lagoon near Seward are seen on Aug. 9, 2024. The landslide that occurred two days earlier caused a local tsunami that reached a ...

Local emergency agencies say they are monitoring the seismic activity but have not issued any tsunami warnings.

A group of appointed officials began Wednesday what will be over a year’s worth of preparation for the state’s redistricting process, which takes place only once every 10 years. The Redistricting ...

More than 10,000 known Alaska landslides or landslide-related events are documented in a new state inventory intended to help improve understanding of risks and what can be done to improve safety. The ...