Fat Bear Week begins as world celebrates champion of chonk in Alaska

This portliest time of the year is an annual celebration of the Brooks River brown bears and how they utilize their healthy and abundant ecosystem to pack on the pounds before winter hibernation.

Fatal plane crash carried 500+ pounds of meat and antlers, claiming Rep. Peltola's husband

A small plane that crashed in rural Alaska earlier this month, killing the husband of U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, was carrying more than 500 pounds of moose meat and antlers from a remote hunting camp when it went down shortly after takeoff.

Alaska hiker rescued thanks to viewers spotting him on bear webcam

In a dramatic rescue in Alaska, a lost hiker was saved thanks to the vigilance of viewers who spotted him on a bear webcam.

Watch: NOAA scientists find mysterious, shiny orb-like object on seafloor

Video from NOAA shows the vessel’s remotely operated arm carefully "tickle" the object before picking it up and sucking it into a vacuum-like tube.

Tennessee hiking couple found safe in Alaska after search and rescue

Authorities in Alaska launched the search after finding the couple's vehicle abandoned and learning that they had never checked out of their Airbnb.

200-pound rescued walrus calf receives round-the-clock 'cuddling'

A 200-pound walrus calf found alone and miles from the ocean on Alaska’s North Slope is getting bottle fed and receiving round-the-clock “cuddling" from animal welfare workers who are trying to keep the 1-month-old alive.

No survivors found after helicopter crashes into remote Alaska lake, officials say

Officials say no survivors have been found after a helicopter carrying a pilot and three state workers crashed in a shallow lake in Alaska’s North Slope region.

Family's Alaska fishing trip becomes nightmare with 3 dead, search ends for 2 others

An Alaska fishing adventure became a nightmare for a family of eight when the wreckage of one of the two boats they’d chartered over the Memorial Day weekend was found partially submerged off an island.

Mormon missionary killed, 3 others hurt in Brazil bus crash

Church leaders said 20-year-old Elder Izaak Orion Card, 20, of Anchorage, Alaska, lost his life in a rural area near the city of Tibagi.

Man drowns after getting stuck in waist-deep mud flats in Alaska

The 20-year-old man’s body was recovered Monday, and the accident was the latest tragedy at Turnagain Arm, a 48-mile-long glacier-carved estuary that travels southeast from Anchorage, Alaska.

Fallen climber rescued at Alaska’s Denali National Park

National Park Service rangers rescued a climber who fell from a 16,000-foot-high ridge at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, officials said Saturday.