Hawaii’s unique position in the center of the Pacific Ocean makes it particularly vulnerable to tsunamis from both distant ...

"It's much harder to get hazard information when you are traveling or vacationing," Lori Dengler writes this week.

Although city officials expect a Mendenhall River levee to hold back glacial outburst floodwaters as soon as early August, ...

Agencies monitoring wildfires in Alaska have downgraded the state to Preparedness Level 4 (PL4) as of Saturday morning.

The National Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning on Wednesday for parts of Alaska's coast following a 7.3 ...

Alaska’s U.S. senators voted differently on a bill to block federal funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting.

The White House defended cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting being pushed through the U.S. House of Representatives this week, saying that the administration’s $9 ...

Communities along a 700-mile stretch of Alaska's southern coast ordered their residents to higher ground after a powerful ...

Magnitude 7.3 quake triggered tsunami warning in Alaska. There are hardly any earthquakes on the East Coast. Does that mean we can't get tsunamis?

While the Gulf is far less prone to tsunamis than the Pacific, experts say it’s not entirely out of the question.

Ground shaking was strongest in Sand Point, with reports of "objects flying out of the pantry and off of shelves," noted the ...