President Donald Trump announced the name of Alaska’s highest peak — and North America’s tallest at over 20,000 feet — Denali, would be changed back to Mount McKinley. Trump was sworn in as the 47th president on Monday,
It was so cold across Florida on Thursday morning that temperatures in at least four cities were colder than in Alaska, but a desperately needed warmup was on the way for millions of Americans from Texas to Florida following a deadly winter storm unmatched in decades.
A man accused of fatally shooting a customer outside an Alaska grocery store and then firing more shots inside the store was ordered to serve 85 years behind bars, prosecutors said.
Trump targets Alaska’s oil and other resources
The president wants to honor a predecessor, William McKinley, by returning his name to North America’s highest peak. The state’s senators prefer the Native name.
The new bill sponsored by Rep. Maxine Dibert of Fairbanks would provide meals for all Alaska students, regardless of ability to pay.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced Thursday she will vote against confirming Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon, becoming the first Republican to oppose one of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks.
Executive orders will enable more drilling, mining and other resource development, reversing Biden-era environmental restrictions, governor says
I wasn’t necessarily looking to purchase a place listed on the National Register for Historic Places,” says Knight, “but when it came up for sale, I jumped.” Tolovana Roadhouse was one of thousands of roadhouses that popped up along Alaska’s trails and rivers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
JUNEAU — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Wednesday that he would seek out a conversation with President Donald Trump about his decision to rename Denali, the tallest mountain in the U.S. Trump ordered on Monday to change the name of the peak to Mount McKinley.
Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Three Kodiak residents were charged with drug trafficking by a federal grand jury earlier this week, tying them to a 2022 fatal fentanyl overdose, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Alaska.