Search and rescue crews responded Sunday afternoon to Kipnuk and Kwigillingok to search for missing people and rescue those displaced by the powerful storm system that impacted multiple coastal communities in Western Alaska. At least 18 people were rescued in Kwigillingok and at least 16 people were rescued in Kipnuk. Three people remain unaccounted […]
In the near future, Juneau’s Mendenhall Glacier will withdraw its icy toe from the lake of its making, scientists say. “The lake is about to not have a glacier in it,” said hydrologist Eran Hood of the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau. “Within the next few years is my guess.” Hood is part of […]
Mount Edgecumbe volcano in Southeast Alaska sits in a place where a volcano shouldn’t really be sitting. Research underway with new federal funding aims to solve that mystery, learn how magma forms beneath the reawakened volcano and reveal the structure of its upper plumbing system — the magma reservoirs, conduits and cracks in which magma […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Governor Mike Dunleavy has issued a disaster declaration for the 2025 October West Coast Storm. On October 8, the remnants of a tropical typhoon impacted the west coast of Alaska with above high tide sea surge which inundated several communities. Communities within the Northwest Arctic Borough experienced the greatest level […]