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An Alaskan jury finds Brian Smith guilty of the murder of Kathleen Jo Henry and Veronica Abouchuk.
2024-02-22

A polar bear attacks and kills a woman and her son in Wales, Alaska, United States, after charging several others, in the first fatal attack since the early 1980s. The bear is shot and killed following the attack.
2023-01-17

The National Transportation Safety Board concludes that pilot error and inadequate maintenance were behind the crash, which killed seven people, injured six others, and destroyed the historic aircraft.
2021-04-13

Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy declares a state of emergency in preparation for the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
2020-03-11

The US National Transportation Safety Board releases a preliminary investigative report containing new information on the accident, in which five passengers drowned when they were trapped in the wreckage.
2018-03-26

An NTSB spokesperson says that preliminary indications are that the train was travelling at 80 mph on a 30 mph track. The Positive train control (PTC) safety system was not operational on the train, says Amtrak.
2017-12-19

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, west of the Alaskan Aleutian Island of Attu, in the North Pacific Ocean. No immediate reports of casualties or damage; a tsunami warning was cancelled.
2017-07-18

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes off Atka Island, southwest Alaska. There are no reports of a tsunami.
2016-03-12

A de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter seaplane crashes near Aleknagik, Alaska, killing five people, including former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens. Former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe and O'Keefe's son were aboard the plane, but survived.
2010-08-10

U.S. Rep. Don Young R-Alaska claims that he has been cleared in a United States Department of Justice corruption probe.
2010-08-4