The "decision to return to the McKinley name" for Alaska's mountain is a "slap in the face of recent efforts to acknowledge ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

An enormous avalanche killed three men on Alaska’s Chugach Range early this month, a popular ski region for heli-skiiers. A Jackson guide was among ...

“It is also possible that an eruption could occur with little or no additional warning,” the Alaska Volcano Observatory ...

Mount Spurr, located about 75 miles West of Anchorage, has been acting up in recent weeks, prompting officials at the U.S.

Mount Spurr is one of 53 volcanoes in Alaska that have been active within the last 250 years and is nearly 80 miles northwest ...

Holmes had a three-hour lead over his closest competitor, Matt Hall, who said he had stopped trying to catch up.

Evidence of elevated volcanic activity indicate eruption of Alaska's Mount Spurr volcano could happen within weeks or months, ...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory on Wednesday said Mount Spurr is at risk of erupting within the next few weeks or months, potentially impacting residents 78 miles away in the city of Anchorage.

Bundled-up well wishers lined a street along the Bering Sea coastline in the early morning darkness Friday, cheering musher ...