A lightning-sparked fire that has burned about 2,000 acres of Arctic Alaska tundra is the biggest wildfire on the North Slope ...

Last week, a 20-person crew of Massachusetts wildland firefighters was sent to assist in putting out significant wildfires in ...

Nearly 2,000 fire personnel were working 28 staffed fires around the state as of Monday. Rainy weather in the Interior this ...

Local firefighters have been sent to Alaska to battle a significant wildfire in the far northwestern state as part of a ...

After decades in Fairbanks and even a few close calls in wildfire country, it wasn’t until my son joined the North Star fire ...

Jim Strickland lives on Haystack Road, north of Fairbanks, just a few miles away from where the Himalaya and Haystack Road ...

Firefighters across the Final Frontier are working to contain dozens of blazes that have forced evacuations and occasionally ...

Eighteen Connecticut residents and two from Rhode Island mobilized to help fight wildfires in Alaska, according to state ...

A cargo ship carrying 3,000 new vehicles sank in the North Pacific off the coast of Alaska several weeks after catching fire and being abandoned by its crew.

A salvage team is expected to arrive early next week at the scene of a cargo ship that was carrying about 3,000 vehicles to ...

The 2,000-acre fire and others north of the Brooks Range fit a pattern of increasing wildfires in the treeless landscape.

The thing about the “United States” is that — until recently — it was part of our national ethos to look after one another.