Stay in a Salted Roots A-frame cabin overlooking Resurrection Bay, the fjord that stretches from Seward to the Gulf of Alaska. See Kenai Fjords National Park by boat; Major Marine Tours offers ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A retreating glacier revealed a new island in Alaska this summer, as lake water filled in to surround a land mass once hugged by ice. Supreme Court agrees to hear from oil and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This satellite image provided by NASA Earth Observatory shows the retreat of Alsek Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A retreating glacier revealed a new island in Alaska this summer, as lake water filled in to surround a land mass once hugged by ice. Mauri S. Pelto, a glaciologist at Nichols ...

Of the thousands of glaciers spread across Alaska, only about 700 have names. These ever-evolving features have lacked a centralized source for information about their status, names or interesting ...

A melting glacier in southeastern Alaska has birthed a brand-new island in the middle of a growing lake, according to recent images captured by NASA satellites. The 2-square-mile island is a small ...

In the shifting landscape of Alaska’s ice, size is not always what it seems. Last weekend, a column in the Anchorage Daily News declared Malaspina Glacier the largest in Alaska. It’s a claim that ...

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The deaths of Arizona resident Thomas Casey, 69, and an unnamed Italian citizen were announced by the Alaska Department of Public Safety, State Troopers this week. On Aug. 31, state troopers were ...

Two tourists fell to their deaths this week near a glacier in southeastern Alaska, in separate fatal incidents, authorities said. Juneau Mountain Rescue and multiple crews of search dogs surveyed the ...