Once one of the state's largest caribou herds, the low population of Southwest Alaska's Mulchatna herd has failed to recover.

Mount Spurr, located about 75 miles West of Anchorage, has been acting up in recent weeks, prompting officials at the U.S. Geological Survey and Alaska Volcano Observatory to issue a yellow alert.

As wildfires burn across Texas and the Carolinas, large swaths of the U.S. — including much of the Southeast and Southwest — ...

Wood Bison once roamed across southwest Alaska, throughout the interior and into Canada, but nearly vanished in the early 1900s.

Last summer, an unsettling quiet cloaked the isolated Southwest Alaska community of King Cove as the town’s economic engine — a sprawling seafood processing plant — sat shuttered.