Egan Millard

The big-box store has "entered into an agreement" with the Fairbanks North Star Borough to occupy the Sam's Club store in Fairbanks, which is closing, according to the borough.

Alaska has a higher rate of gun deaths than any other state. Here are the circumstances that give our state its grim distinction -- who, what, when, where and why -- visualized.

Alaska has a higher rate of gun deaths than any other state. Here are the circumstances that give our state its grim distinction -- who, what, when, where and why -- visualized.

A man was found dead after his Eagle River house went up in flames Friday night. The Anchorage Police Department identified the victim Saturday night as 57-year-old Anthony Fuentes.

One person died in an avalanche in Hatcher Pass Saturday afternoon, marking the area’s second avalanche death this month, Alaska State Troopers said.

Anchorage Police Chief Chris Tolley said two officers were responding to a report of a fight, but would not say exactly what prompted the shooting. Tolley said police believe alcohol may have been a factor.

A man died after jumping from the third-floor balcony at the annual Alaska Federation of Natives convention at the Dena'ina Center on Saturday afternoon as the convention ended. Anchorage police called the death a suicide.

The Alaska presented to Outsiders on screen is almost always a heavily edited backdrop painted to suit whatever version of the Last Frontier the director thinks people want to see. Which is what makes the brutal honesty of “Wildlike” so refreshing.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Anchorage Police Department are searching for a man they say robbed an Anchorage bank and tried to rob another on Wednesday.

Police describe the suspect as a 50- to 60-year-old clean-shaven white man with shoulder-length gray and white wavy hair.

A 28-year-old woman was found dead Friday morning after falling into a swift-moving creek on Thursday in Denali National Park and Preserve, according to a news release from the park Saturday night.

The body of an Eagle River man who fell to his death from a cliff over the Eklutna River canyon Tuesday evening was recovered around noon Wednesday, according to the Chugiak Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company.

The Anchorage Fire Department responded to a fire in the trees along the Chester Creek Trail near Rogers Park Friday night, but had it under control by about 10 p.m., fire officials said.

As wildfires destroy homes and property from the Susitna Valley to the Kenai Peninsula, forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate, many Alaskans are searching for ways to help. Here’s a list of possibilities.

A helicopter crew responded and hoisted the fishermen from their life raft in Stevenson Entrance, about 60 miles north of Kodiak, and brought them back to Kodiak safely, the Coast Guard said.