This season the birch pollen has been particularly bad. Some people with asthma have had to leave the state. The peak was May 18 when pollen counts were 974 grains per cubic meter.

Anchorage-based photographer saw something wild — a sudden, bright light on the northern horizon that quickly started to take on a spiral shape as it drew nearer. The spiral “appears to be rocket engine exhaust from a SpaceX Transporter-7 mission that launched on the Falcon 9 about three hours earlier in California.”

How the virus is contracted and how long it’s been around still remain a mystery. But researchers have found evidence in small mammals.

The European black slug was first introduced into Alaska in the 1980s in Cordova, Slowik said. It eventually made its way to Juneau and Ketchikan, likely hitching a ride on fishing gear, and is now prevalent across Southeast. A few years ago, people started seeing the slug in Whittier and Girdwood.

Looking over a longer time span, bears in the southern Beaufort Sea are now using land to an extent they haven’t used it historically,” a researcher said.

The whale is located in an inaccessible place where scientists are unable to take a necropsy.

The National Weather Service forecast wind gusts up to 50 mph in some places and whiteout conditions.

The rehabilitation center in Seward doesn’t usually get bearded seals, which live much farther north.

Some are concerned about the farmed Atlantic salmon coming to Alaska and bringing unwelcome competition for native species.

Sea star wasting disease, a type of densovirus, reduced the count of sea stars in Kachemak Bay from 180 last spring to a measly five this year.

Scientists have narrowed down the top likely causes of more than 1,400 seal deaths across New England.

As of Friday afternoon, the sockeye escapement in the Chignik salmon fishery was less than half of what it usually is this time of the year.

The statewide average temperature in December was 19.4 degrees, 15.7 degrees above the 20th century average.

A September storm caused damage in Utqiagvik, and Gov. Bill Walker declared a disaster there last month.

Anchorage sidewalks were slick with ice and the roads were full of puddles because of unseasonably high temperatures.By mid morning the temperature had reached 46 degrees.

Previously, the dredging started around May and ran through October, but the past three winters it has started earlier and run longer.

The devastating storm once known as Hurricane Harvey, already the biggest rainstorm in the history of the continental United States, delivered another punishing wave of rain Wednesday to Texas and Louisiana.

Fishing businesses in Mat-Su warned that the rules could hurt the state's tourism economy.

An early melt-out date can make for an especially bad wildfire season, but this year, it’s right on schedule for much of the state. Listen now