Alaskan bears are the main stars in a new survival reality show. Peacock’s “The Hungry Games: Alaska’s Big Bear Challenge” focuses on the bears of the Katmai National Park as they get ready for winter hibernation, all through the lens of a playful competition. In TODAY’s exclusive clip, which aired July 3, mama bear Boldface […]
An Air Force colonel who was the director of operations for Alaskan Command was one of two people killed in a civilian airplane crash in the state earlier this week, officials confirmed Friday. Col. Mark “Tyson” Sletten, 46, was reported missing Tuesday after two hikers witnessed a plane crash at Crescent Lake near Moose Pass […]
Nick Mavar, a longtime fisherman whose tenacious deckhand years were chronicled in the Discovery Channel reality series “Deadliest Catch,” died Thursday in Alaska, Bristol Bay Police Chief Jeffrey Eldie confirmed Friday to Deadline. He was 59 years old. His nephew Jake Anderson, who appeared with Mavar on the show and previously credited Mavar for helping […]
The frozen soil in Alaska known as permafrost is gradually thawing in many areas because the Arctic region is “warming at a pace three to four times faster than the rest of Earth,” said Bob Bolton, deputy of operations for the Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments in the Arctic (NGEE Arctic) project, led by Oak Ridge National […]
President Joe Biden nudged further ahead in the Democratic nomination for re-election by winning the party caucuses in Wyoming and is the only choice on the ballot later in Alaska. As two of the least populated states, Alaska and Wyoming play minuscule roles in both intra-party and general election voting in presidential election years. Mr […]
Renault’s own version of the Nissan Navara pickup truck. The Alaskan is one of three models to use the jointly developed Renault-Nissan pickup platform. The Navara and the Mercedes-Benz X-Class are both built alongside the Alaskan at Nissan’s plant in Barcelona, although each has its own distinctive look and, in the case of the X-Class, has been fine-tuned and altered slightly to better reflect Mercedes’ […]
Fast food is typically a budget-friendly option for a quick meal, though in recent days it no longer seems to be as cheap, approaching nearly $20 for a combo meal. While those lower-cost burgers aren’t so long behind us, looking back at the costs of fast food in the 90s could make your jaw drop, […]
A dramatic shift in the Alaskan landscape is underway. As unprecedented heat melts long-frozen tundra, runoff is altering the composition of Arctic rivers and streams. One such waterway is Tukpahlearik Creek in northern Alaska, which recently turned a striking shade of orange. Like dozens of other Arctic streams, Tukpahlearik is changing color as iron pours […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gregory Golodoff spent most of his years on a quiet Alaska island, living an ordinary life, managing a co-op store, fishing for crab and serving as the village council president. But Golodoff’s recent death at the age of 84 has reopened a chapter of American history and stirred up memories of a […]