An eruption of Mount Churchill today similar to previous major plumes would bring much of the Northern Hemisphere to a ...

After running one of the most grueling stretches of the trail, mushers will rest at the town’s old schoolhouse.

Built in the 1950s, the dam has obstructed the upriver migration of fish, including chinook, whose numbers are a fraction of ...

The Yukon Quest sled dog race kicks off this weekend, and somewhere entirely new this time — in Teslin, Yukon.The annual ...

Mount Churchill stands in a white corner of the Alaska map, deceptive in its cold, windblown silence. At least twice in the last few thousand years, the peak’s ice-covered caldera has spewed ash that ...

Shakespeare once asked, “What’s in a name? Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?” And in the case of Denali, would a ...

Vigilance and preparation are important, say forecasters at the NWS, as wintry weather brings hazardous travel conditions.

Seventy-five years ago, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana. No trace of its crew and passengers, including a pregnant mother and her young son, has ever been found ...

They became social media celebrities during their snowmobile trip from Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to Fairbanks, Alaska, a trek ...

including Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and central Canada. These increases in water on the landscape over time are likely a sign of thawing permafrost. Among the 20 most vulnerable places the ...

Doig River First Nation in British Columbia says it plans on conserving and restoring nearly 100,000 hectares of territorial ...

The NWS has issued warnings this weekend after a powerful polar vortex plunged temperatures nationwide during the week.