Friday morning, Blackhawk helicopter after Blackhawk helicopter arrived in Bethel carrying families and animals fleeing the toxic flood waters from ex-Typhoon Halong that have swamped many parts of Western Alaska after storm waters picked up homes and destroyed multiple villages.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Damage to remote Alaska villages hammered by flooding last weekend is so extreme that many of the more than 2,000 people displaced won’t be able to return to their homes for at least 18 months, Gov. Mike Dunleavy said in a request to the White House for a major disaster declaration.

Officials say one of the “most significant” airlifts in Alaska history is underway following a devastating typhoon. Hundreds of people — and now their dogs, too — are being evacuated from coastal towns devastated by last weekend's storm.

That included residents of Kwigillingok, who were boarding military helicopters with the few possessions they could carry.

The countdown has begun for watching this year’s Denali National Park Puppy Cam, which gives viewers a peek into the only sled dog kennel in the National Park Service.

Alaska's Denali National Park is giving people a unique chance to see its famed sled dogs up close via the puppy cam.

Musher Connor McMahon of Carcross, Yukon Territory, Canada, wearing big No. 3, takes an auction winner in his sled 11 miles over the streets of Anchorage, Alaska, during the Saturday, March 2, 2024, ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a contagious disease known as the “strangling angel ...

The Iditarod, the annual sled dog race celebrating Alaska's official state sport, is set to get underway Saturday with a new focus on safety after five dogs died and eight were injured in collisions with snowmobiles while training on shared, multi-use trails.