The declaration covers areas near Chalkyitsik on the Black River and Hughes on the Koyukuk River, which were struck by rapidly rising water over the last week.

Meteorologists say record cold temperatures this winter likely thickened river ice, which could make this year’s breakup more dangerous.

Protestors rallied in Fairbanks this month to call for greater transparency for families of police shooting victims.

Law enforcement officers and a SWAT team converged on a middle school in Fairbanks Thursday after getting a report of what officials later determined was false information about gunshots at the school on the north side of town.

The state Department of Transportation will hold a series of virtual meetings this week to ask Alaskans for input on a 30-year transportation plan.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that 11th Airborne Division soldiers from Alaska have been told to stand down after receiving orders last month to prepare to deploy to Minnesota.

A semi-tractor truck pulling a tanker trailer wrecked Monday on a curvy stretch of the Dalton Highway about 250 miles north of Fairbanks.

A 29-year-old Fairbanks man is being held at Fairbanks Correctional Center on a charge of first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of his grandmother.

A semi-tractor trailer loaded with explosives slid off a slick stretch of the Alaska Highway Tuesday a couple miles east of Delta Junction. Alaska State Troopers say the explosives didn’t detonate and the driver wasn’t injured.

The former chief of a Delta Junction-area volunteer fire department pleaded guilty Thursday to defrauding the department of more than $440,000.