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A channel flows through the mud flats along the Seward Highway and Turnagain Arm in Alaska on Oct. 25, 2014. Authorities said, a 20-year-old man from Illinois who was walking Sunday evening, May 21, 2023, on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary, got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before frantic rescuers could extract him. (Bob Hallinen/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

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'Mother Nature has no mercy': Man gets stuck waist-deep in Alaska mud flats, drowns as tide comes in
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Mon,05/22/23-8:31PM , 244 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before frantic rescuers could extract him, authorities said.
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Flames are visible from the Beluga Point parking area near Anchorage, Alaska, on July 19, 2016, as a wildfire near McHugh Creek burns. A recent series of wildfires near Anchorage and the hottest day on record have sparked fears that a warming climate could soon mean serious, untenable blazes in urban areas — just like in the rest of the drought-plagued American West. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

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Wildfires in Anchorage? Climate change sparks disaster fears
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Sat,04/29/23-11:46PM , 415 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Research on a flat spot for air evacuations. Talk of old-style civil defense sirens to warn of fast-moving wildfires. Hundreds of urban firefighters training in wildland firefighting techniques while snow still blankets the ground.
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In this photo provided by Todd Salat, northern light enthusiasts got a surprise early April 15, 2023, when something odd was mixed in with the green bands of light dancing above the Donnelly Dome near Delta Junction, Alaska. A light baby blue spiral resembling a galaxy appeared amid the aurora for a few minutes. The spiral was formed when excess fuel that had been released from a SpaceX rocket that launched from California about three hours earlier turned to ice, and then the water vapor reflected the sunlight in the upper atmosphere. (Todd Salat via AP)

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Rocket science: Alaska sky spiral caused by SpaceX fuel dump
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Mon,04/17/23-4:55PM , 564 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Northern lights enthusiasts got a surprise mixed in with the green bands of light dancing in the Alaska skies: A light baby blue spiral resembling a galaxy appeared amid the aurora for a few minutes.
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A young moose looking for a bite wandered into a hospital building in Alaska, attracting a crowd while it munched on greenery before it was coaxed outside (April 7)

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Moose feasts on lobby plants in Alaska hospital building
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Fri,04/07/23-1:46PM , 528 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — So this moose walks into a medical building...

While that could be a setup to a bad joke, it actually happened in Anchorage on Thursday.
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