Every year, the world loses an estimated 7 percent of its seagrasses. While the reasons are manifold, one culprit has long confounded scientists: eelgrass wasting disease. This September a team of biologists is zeroing in on the problem, in the first study of the disease to stretch along the Pacific Coast from southern California to Alaska.

Jimmy and Kim’s most intimate moments have always been carefully cast among shadows and light, like the old noir flicks they love to watch so much. Alas, their Purple Rose of Cairo romance is dimming down to black and white. All that’s really left in bed beside Jimmy is the ...

The father of a 10-year-old girl whose body was found east of a remote Inupiat Eskimo town on Alaska's northwestern coast says his daughter always had a smile and loved to use her allowance to buy things for her friends.

A missing girl, 10, has been found dead in Alaska, and a 41-year-old man has been arrested by the FBI in connection with the disappearance.

A search that includes 17 FBI agents has yielded no sign of a 10-year-old girl who went missing in a remote, largely Inupiat Eskimo town north of the Arctic Circle on Alaska's western coast, prompting authorities to investigate whether foul play was involved.

Two Russian Tu-95 "Bear" bombers and two Su-35 "Flanker" fighter jets entered the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone, NORAD said in a statement.