A tsunami warning has been issued for parts of the Alaska Peninsula, stretching from Kennedy Entrance to Unimak Pass. This ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A lightly populated stretch of Alaska’s southern coast was under a tsunami warning Wednesday after a ...

Federal officials changed the names of two natural features in Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Thursday, replacing arbitrary and ...

The name “Nazi Creek” will no longer be used for federal databases or maps. On Thursday, the Domestic Names Committee for the ...

German soldiers never set foot on the speck of land at the far end of the Aleutian Islands during World War II, but the name ...

Its new name is Kaxchim Chiĝanaa, meaning either “gizzard creek” or “creek or river belonging to gizzard island” in Unangam ...

• Map: Cellphone coverage is a rare gift in Alaska’s backcountry, so don’t plan on relying on your cell service to download maps on the trail. Even busier trails in the city can be out of range.

Scientists are finding out some people don’t want it. Residents of Juneau, the state capital and the region’s biggest city at just over 31,000 people, convinced assembly members in the city to ...