Funding for Indian Health Service, the agency that provides Native Americans with medical care, is under threat.

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck shortly before 7 a.m. Friday morning, just 54 miles southeast of Adak. This is one in a ...

No injuries were reported but hundreds of people were displaced Thursday after a large landslide buried a road just outside ...

Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire ...

Officials are urging residents to make plans for an extended closure after Thursday morning's slide near Wolfe Point.

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

Plans by the Social Security Administration to create stronger identity checks to combat fraudulent claims could weigh heavily on Alaskans who must fly hundreds of miles to reach agency field offices ...

Imagine receiving a letter or email that decides the course of life for the next three to seven years. That will be the case ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order Thursday "aimed at eliminating” the U.S. Education Department.

The senator, a target of several protests around the state in recent days, described a bright future for Alaska, based on ...

The estimated gross takeoff weight was about 1,058 pounds over the limit for icy conditions, according to a preliminary NTSB ...

About the same number of people registered for the Buckwheat International Ski Classic this year as last year. And nearly 70% ...