Iditarod meets with animal welfare leaders to learn, listen
The new head of Alaska's Iditarod met with a leader of PETA, which views the race as a cruel, deadly event for its canine participants.
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3 dead, 3 missing after small tour planes collide in Alaska
Three people were killed after two sightseeing airplanes carrying cruise ship tourists collided in midair Monday near a southeast Alaska town, the Coast Guard said.
Faith-based homeless shelter fights to keep out transgender women
A conservative Christian law firm that has pushed religious issues in multiple states urged a U.S. judge on Friday to block Alaska's largest city from requiring a faith-based women's shelter...
Life is slowly settling down in Alaska after major quake
Life is slowly settling down in Alaska following a powerful earthquake that rattled buildings, disrupted power and caused heavy damage to the only highway that goes north of Anchorage.
Powerful quakes buckle Alaska roads, trigger tsunami warning
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.8 rocked buildings and buckled roads Friday morning in Anchorage, prompting people to run from their offices or take cover under...
Iditarod sled dog race is engulfed in dog-doping scandal
Cycling. Baseball. Track. Horse racing. Now dogsledding has become the latest professional sport to be engulfed in a doping scandal, this one involving the huskies that dash across the frozen...
Dallas Seavey, 4-time Iditarod winner, denies doping his dogs
Four-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey denied Monday that he administered banned drugs to his dogs in this year's race and said he has withdrawn from the 2018 race in protest...
4-time Iditarod winner Dallas Seavey named as musher in dog doping case
Four-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey denied Monday that he administered banned drugs to his dogs in this year's race and said he has withdrawn from the 2018 race in protest...
Dogs test positive for drugs in Iditarod race for 1st time
For the first time in the history of the world's most famous sled dog race, several of the high-performance animals have tested positive for a prohibited drug. But race officials...
Alaska Gold Rush town struggles with hard-drinking legacy
The old Gold Rush town of Nome on Alaska's western coast is trying again to address hard drinking that's deeply entrenched there — this time with a proposed law prohibiting...