The Catalyst, a 74-foot wooden hulled vessel carrying four crew members and nine passengers, ran aground on Robert Island Tuesday morning, said Coast Guard Lieutenant Byron Hayes.

The Coast Guard says four Fairbanks men were rescued from Hinchinbrook Island after their boat took on water.

Anchorage police say a 51-year-old man suffering what appeared to be severe burns was found in the shed of an unoccupied mobile home.

The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has prompted U.S. Sen. Mark Begich to introduce several bills aimed at making energy development safer.

Nearly two-thirds of Alaska’s college-bound high school students enroll in Alaska universities.

A Fourth of July fire in North Pole caused an estimated $350,000 damage.

A mallard hen snatches a piece of bread from a pile left by a patron of Riverside Rotary Park Monday.

FAIRBANKS – Research illuminating an ancient language connection between Asia and North America supports archaeological and genetic evidence that a Bering Strait land bridge once connected North America with Asia, and the discovery is being endorsed by a growing list of scholars in the field of linguistics and other sciences.

FAIRBANKS – Research illuminating an ancient language connection between Asia and North America supports archaeological and genetic evidence that a Bering Strait land bridge once connected North America with Asia, and the discovery is being endorsed by a growing list of scholars in the field of linguistics and other sciences.

FAIRBANKS – Research illuminating an ancient language connection between Asia and North America supports archaeological and genetic evidence that a Bering Strait land bridge once connected North America with Asia, and the discovery is being endorsed by a growing list of scholars in the field of linguistics and other sciences.