Latest Alaska Headlines
All the headlines from our Alaska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Alaska Airlines Vows IT Upgrades After Outage Forces 400 Flight Cancellations
Oct 27 2025 // U.S. carrier Alaska Airlines said it had restored operations after a technology outage that grounded flights across the country and forced it to cancel more than 400 flights, disrupting travel for more than 49,000...
What to Know About Recovery Efforts in Alaska Following Storm
Oct 23 2025 // The mass evacuation by military aircraft of hundreds of residents from Alaska villages ravaged by the remnants of Typhoon Halong is complete, and officials and local leaders are turning attention to trying to stabilize...
Alaska Storm Damage So Bad Many Evacuees Won’t Go Home for at Least 18 Months
Oct 20 2025 // Damage to remote Alaska villages hammered by flooding last weekend is so extreme that many of the more than 2,000 people displaced won’t be able to return to their homes for at least 18 months, Gov. Mike Dunleavy...
1 Dead, 2 Missing and Dozens Rescued After Remnants of Typhoon Lashed Alaska
Oct 15 2025 // One person was dead and two were missing in western Alaska after the remnants of Typhoon Halong over the weekend brought hurricane-force winds and ravaging storm surges and floodwaters that swept some homes away,...
Temporary Barriers Spared Alaska’s Capital From Severe Flooding, Long-Term Fix Elusive
Aug 18 2025 // The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska’s capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those who live along the picturesque river that winds from the nearby Mendenhall Glacier. This...
Alaska Air Resumes Flights After IT Outage Led to Grounding
Jul 22 2025 // Alaska Air Group Inc. continued to recover on Monday after temporarily grounding its entire fleet due to a data center equipment failure that affected several of the carrier’s key operating systems. Eighty-three...
Alaska Tsunami Warning Had Residents Scrambling for High Ground After M7.3 Quake
Jul 18 2025 // Communities along a 700-mile stretch of Alaska’s southern coast ordered residents to higher ground after a powerful offshore earthquake Wednesday, but officials quickly downgraded and then canceled a tsunami warning...
FAA Updates Altitudes, Changeover Points for Safe Airspace Navigation in Alaska
Jul 17 2025 // The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a final rule amending the instrument flight rules (IFR) altitudes and changeover points for several Federal airways, jet routes, and direct routes in Alaska. These changes are...
NWS Issues Alaska’s First Ever Heat Advisory
Jun 17 2025 // For the first time ever, parts of Alaska are under a heat advisory — but you can put an asterisk at the end of that term. It’s not the first instance of unusually high temperatures in what many consider the...
Burning Cargo Ship Carrying 3,000 Vehicles Abandoned Off Alaska
Jun 4 2025 // The crew of a cargo ship carrying around 3,000 vehicles, including 800 electric vehicles, abandoned it off the coast of Alaska after a fire broke out onboard, its operator Zodiac Maritime said on Wednesday. The 22 crew...
$2.1M Settlement With Family of Alaska Teen Fatally Shot by Officer
May 28 2025 // Alaska’s largest city has reached a $2.1 million settlement with the family of a 16-year-old girl who was holding a knife last August when she was fatally shot by a police officer. Anchorage Mayor Suzanne...
Alaska Native Who Alleged Wrongful Murder Conviction Reaches $11.5M Settlement
Apr 22 2025 // An Alaska Native man who maintained his innocence in the 1997 killing of a white teenager has agreed to an $11.5 million settlement with the city of Fairbanks after alleging police acted with a racial bias in a case in...
Volcano Near Alaska’s Largest City Could Erupt in Coming Weeks Or Months: Scientists
Mar 17 2025 // A volcano near Alaska’s largest city is showing new signs of unrest, with experts saying the likelihood of an eruption at Mount Spurr in the next few weeks or months has increased. The Alaska Volcano Observatory said...
Swarm of Moderate to Strong Quakes Hit Alaska’s Aleutian Islands
Dec 10 2024 // A series of moderate to strong earthquakes that struck Alaska’s western Aleutian Islands and offshore areas Sunday comprised what scientists call a “swarm,” but the state’s earthquake monitors said...
Earthquakes Under a Volcano Near Alaska’s Largest City Raise Concerns
Dec 9 2024 // An increase in the number of earthquakes under a volcano near Alaska’s largest city this year has geologists paying attention. Mount Spurr, about 80 miles northwest of Anchorage, last erupted in 1992, spewing an ash...
Alaska Airlines Tech Issue Briefly Grounded Planes in Seattle
Dec 4 2024 // A technology issue at Alaska Airlines resulted in the temporary grounding of flights in Seattle on Monday morning and problems into the afternoon for people trying to book flights on its website, the airline said. The...
Nearly $75M in Federal Grant Funds to Help Alaska Native Communities With Climate Impacts
Oct 22 2024 // Nearly $75 million in federal grant funds over the next five years will be aimed at helping Alaska Native communities as they grapple with the impacts of climate change. The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is...
All 4 Dead Aboard Plane After Crash Near Runway in Rural Alaska
Sep 19 2024 // A crash of a plane roughly a half-mile from a runway near the southwest Alaska community of St. Mary’s killed all four occupants on board the aircraft, authorities said. Alaska State Troopers said they received a...
Western Alaska Yup’ik Village Floods as River Rises From a Series of Storms
Aug 23 2024 // Storm-battered residents in the western Alaska village of Napakiak were preparing for the third storm in a week Tuesday, days after a minister had to use a front loader to free people from flooded homes. Napakiak, a...
An Estimated 290 Residences Damaged by Flooding From Lake Dammed by Alaska Glacier
Aug 14 2024 // Roughly 290 residences in Alaska’s capital city were damaged last week by flooding from a lake dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier, officials said. In addition to the homes and apartment and condo units, at least two...
