Working in temperatures that reached the minus-30s, teams of kids carved whimsical animals and a towering Eye of Sauron.

February provided a full Alaska winter weather experience: coastal blizzards, strong temperature swings, heavy snowfall and more deep cold in many locations. The Alaska Climate Research Center at the ...

“The atmosphere got stuck in a pattern,” said Alaska State Climatologist Martin Stuefer, also a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. “A big high-pressure system sat ...

Located near the geographic center of the state, Fairbanks is known as Alaska’s Golden Heart City. Established along the Chena River in 1901, it originally served prospectors working outlying gold ...

Thursday’s Spring Fest event, traditionally held at Tanana Lakes Recreation Area, took place at the Big Dipper Ice Arena this ...

Iditarod musher Jeff Deeter of Fairbanks talks to spectators on March 1 as he approaches the end of a trail of old snow stretching only about 1.5 miles in downtown Anchorage. The race’s ceremonial ...

News-Miner opinion: Winter has settled over Fairbanks once again, frosting the trees, dimming the daylight, and transforming our roads into sheets of unpredictable ice. Every year, like clockwork, it ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Officials in Alaska rushed Tuesday to evacuate and find housing for people from tiny coastal villages devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong. But the remote location and ...

Thirty below again this morning. OK then. Time to reach for the baseball bat and fine-tune the weather station.

Unusually warm conditions, connected to long-term climate change, are taking a toll on traditional winter sports in much of Alaska. What is normally 60 kilometers of snowy trails at Kincaid Park, one ...