Alaska news headlines

An off-duty pilot riding as a passenger in the cockpit of an Alaska Airlines flight tried to "disrupt the operation of the engines" on Sunday.

Fat Bear Week is an annual tournament-style competition to find the fattest bear at Katmai National Park in Alaska, US.

Raging river waters have swept away some of the region's most valuable homes.

An Alaska man on a paddleboard escaped a close encounter with a humpback whale, not even getting wet.

A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in a US estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in.

US and Canadian military officials said the incident was not related to the flight of unidentified aerial objects in past weeks.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told US media they were much smaller than earlier ones downed by the US military.

An unidentified object was shot down 16km off the frozen coast of Alaska on Friday afternoon, US officials announced, but details about the object are scarce.

No rabies or other aggression-causing diseases were found in the polar bear that was likely old and sickly.

Myomick, 24, and her son, 1-year-old Clyde Ongtowasruk, made it just beyond the front of the Kingikmiut School in Wales, Alaska, just below the Arctic Circle, when a polar bear emerged from the impenetrable snow squall and mauled them.

A polar bear chased several residents around a tiny, isolated Alaska Native whaling village, killing two people in an extremely rare attack before another community member shot and killed the bear, authorities said.

A US couple couldn't believe their luck after witnessing the huge creature "pop" and "crack" its own antlers off right in front of their eyes.

The Alaska snow crab harvest has been canceled for the first time ever after billions of the crustaceans have disappeared.

This year's winner of the annual Katmai National Park Fat Bear Week competition may well be the biggest brown bear on Earth.

Two Russians who said they fled the country to avoid military service have requested asylum in the US after landing in a small boat on a remote Alaska island.

Sarah Palin's political comeback bid has failed, handing Democrats a win in a congressional seat they have not held in 50 years.

Christopher McCandless weighed just 30 kilograms when he died alone in the Alaskan wilderness on August 18, 1992.

The Norwegian Sun arrived in Seattle yesterday for emergency repairs.

A newborn baby was reported in stable and healthy condition after being found days earlier abandoned in a cardboard box in frigid temperatures.

Mammoths and other giant creatures of the Ice Age such as woolly rhinos survived longer than scientists thought, coexisting with humans for tens of thousands years before they vanished for good.

A woman known for 37 years only as Horseshoe Harriet, one of dozen or so victims of a notorious Alaska serial killer, has been identified.

The 25-year-old's large frame was voted most impressive in an annual online competition, which compares the post-hibernation weight gain of brown bears at the Katmai National Park and Preserve.

As clocks around Australia tick forward an hour to mark daily light savings time, there are some places around the world where the sun never fully shines.

Observation stations have raised alert levels from yellow to orange, indicating an eruption is underway.

A Utah man was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison in the beating death of his wife on an Alaska cruise in 2017.

Allen Minish was alone and surveying land for a real estate agent in a wooded, remote part of Alaska, putting some numbers into his GPS unit when he looked up and saw a large brown bear walking about 10m away.

Billionaire businessman and the richest man in the Czech Republic Petr Kellner has died in a helicopter crash.

Top US and Chinese officials offered sharply different views of each other and the world on Thursday as the two sides met face-to-face for the first time since President Joe Biden took office.

An Alaskan archipelago once dubbed the "Rat Islands" have provided a stunning example of ecological recovery, a new study has said.

An Alaska woman had the scare of a lifetime when using an outhouse in the backcountry and she was attacked by a bear, from below.

An 18-year-old Alaska man just out of jail for assault has been charged with killing four members of his family, including two cousins ages 7 and 10, charging documents released Tuesday said.

An Alaskan town has said goodbye to daylight for the next two months.

A reported 7.5 magnitude earthquake off the Alaska Peninsula prompted tsunami warnings for a vast swath of communities.

The mayor of Alaska’s largest city submitted his resignation Tuesday evening, four days after an anchorwoman at a local television station threatened to report he had posted nude photos of himself on a website.

After gorging on salmon all summer and fall, one Alaskan brown bear is the fattest of all.

The hunter killed by a grizzly bear last weekend in a remote part of Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve was identified Thursday by park officials as a 22-year-old man from Ohio.

A hunter was killed by a grizzly bear this weekend in Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, marking the park's first known bear mauling fatality.

The Russian navy has conducted major war games near Alaska involving dozens of ships and aircraft, the military says, the biggest such drills in the area since Soviet times.

Two small planes collided in the air in Alaska on Friday (local time), killing all seven people on both aircraft, including a state representative from the area, state troopers said.

A powerful 7.8 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula and a tsunami warning has been issued.

The infamous 142 school bus was airlifted to an undisclosed location by the US Military after fellow adventurers died seeking it out.

The nuclear-capable planes were located near Alaska and escorted by US forces during an 11-hour routine flight said to be within international law.

A Utah man has been rescued from the Alaskan wilderness, approximately three weeks after a fire burned his home to the ground, killed his dog and left him without much food, clothing or shelter.

The suspect in a torture killing in Alaska's biggest city ended up leading police right to him, first by losing a digital memory card labeled "Homicide at midtown Marriott" that contained video of the dying woman.

A grand jury in Alaska has returned an additional murder indictment against a man already charged with the murder and sexual assault of another woman.

US fighter jets have intercepted Russian aircraft off the coast of Alaska as tensions grow over alleged election interference.

Two sightseeing planes that collided in Alaska killing six people, including an Australian, struck each other at a height of about 1000 metres.

Simon Bodie, 56, took the flight as part of a side trip from a cruise he was taking along the Alaskan coast.

Five people are dead after a double float plane crash off the Alaskan coast.

Alaskans have endured at least 545 aftershocks after two back-to-back 7.0 and 5.7 earthquakes cracked highways and rocked buildings.