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Three United States Army personnel are killed and another is injured when two AH-64 Apache helicopters collide over Healy, Alaska, near Fort Wainwright, in the United States.
2023-04-27

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 launch of an unmanned ABL Space Systems RS1 rocket fails at the Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, United States. The rocket crashes during the launch, damaging the launch platform and destroying the rocket and its cargo.
2023-01-11

Tonga is hit by ashfall and a tsunami after the eruption of Hunga Tonga, destroying homes as locals struggle to find higher ground. Major flooding is reported in the capital Nukuʻalofa. Shock waves from the eruption are detected as far away as Alaska, United States. Other Pacific countries have also advised their citizens to seek higher ground. Internet access has reportedly been disrupted in Tonga.
2022-01-15

An 8.2 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Alaska, with at least two strong aftershocks (6.2 and 5.6) and prompting tsunami warnings. It is the strongest earthquake to hit the United States since the 1965 Rat Islands earthquake, which also occurred off the Alaskan coast.
2021-07-28

Two United States F-22 fighters intercept a pair of Russian Tu-95 bombers in international airspace near Alaska.
2020-10-20

Five people are killed in a plane crash in Western Alaska, United States.
2020-02-7

U.S. F-22 stealth jets intercept four Russian Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers and two Russian Su-35 jets entering the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone off the coast of Alaska. The Russian jets and bombers did not enter the U.S. nor Canadian airspace according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
2019-05-20

Voters in Anchorage, Alaska, United States, reject a proposed amendment to the city charter which would have restricted public restroom use to the gender appearing on the user's birth certificate.
2018-04-4

Effective midnight, Washington, D.C. joins Alaska, Colorado, and Washington state as the only places in the United States that locally purport to override federal law and allow the use of marijuana for recreational purposes.
2015-02-26