Closing airports can be more than an inconvenience in a state where most communities aren't connected to Alaska's main road system. Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport also is among the ...

It is an 11,070-foot tall, ice- and snow-covered volcano roughly 80 miles northwest of Anchorage. Mount Spurr is one of 53 volcanoes in Alaska that have been active within the last 250 years.

Aerial view of Mt Spurr along the western edge of Cook Inlet between Anchorage, Alaska. Don Grall/Getty Images An increase in gas emissions confirms that new magma has entered the Earth’s crust ...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory has revealed that recent overflights of Mount Spurr, which is near Anchorage, found 'significantly elevated volcanic gas emissions' Gabrielle Rockson is a staff ...

The Alaska Triangle is an area between Utqiagvik, Anchorage, and Juneau. This vast region of unforgiving terrain in Alaska has a long history of unexplained disappearances dating back to before 1988.

Mount Spurr, located about 75 miles West of Anchorage, has been acting up in recent weeks, prompting officials at the U.S. Geological Survey and Alaska Volcano Observatory to issue a yellow alert.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (NBC) -- Scientists are urging people who live in south-central Alaska to begin preparing for a possible eruption of the Mount Spurr volcano. The Alaska Volcano Observatory said ...