Blizzards, avalanches, 100-mile-per-hour winds, and sub-zero temperatures—all in the midst of rugged mountains, massive ...

Tuesday marked four decades since Captain Douglas Schrage started his first day with the Anchorage Fire Department (AFD) in ...

An Alaska State Troopers vehicle. Alaska State Troopers say a Willow man was fatally shot Monday night, after a dispute over carrying firewood escalated to violence. Jared Higgins, 31, is charged ...

Alaska State Troopers have identified the two men presumed dead after their ATV went through river ice Thursday as 42-year-old Sean Kendall of Anchorage and 32-year-old Skye Rench of Wasilla.

A 34-year-old Wasilla man was shot and killed by a police officer late Sunday after the man fired on the officer’s cruiser with a rifle, Alaska State Troopers said. Troopers said the incident ...

Alaska State Troopers said. After the slide caught the skiers, guides from the heli-skiing company that the group was with immediately tried to find the three missing skiers, according to troopers.

Alaska State Troopers say an avalanche swept up and buried three skiers under a blanket of snow that could be 100 feet deep in the Alaska backcountry ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An avalanche in Alaska ...

Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday. The number of skiers and their conditions were not immediately available. The slide happened late Tuesday afternoon near the skiing community of Girdwood ...

While Alaska State Troopers had been unable to assess the site, spokesperson Austin McDaniel said troopers do not believe the three skiers survived the avalanche. The slide caught the heli-skiers ...

Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday. If the deaths are confirmed, it would be the deadliest U.S. avalanche since three climbers were killed in a slide in Washington’s Cascade Range two years ago.

A year later, a heli-ski guide scouting an area for clients died when an avalanche carried his body nearly 1500 feet down a mountain, Alaska State Troopers said at the time. Prior to this week’s ...