The U.S. Navy’s WWII-era Alaska-class ships were unique and powerful warships, essentially a hybrid of a battlecruiser and a ...

Since 2000, Anchorage police have killed 34 people. Here’s what we know about the fatal encounters, and why the department is doing its own analysis. A rapid succession of fatal shootings this ...

An Anchorage-based nonprofit has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Navy for suddenly canceling a $5 million federal grant that ...

The commander of the Navy’s northwest region issued the apology during an at-times emotional ceremony Saturday, the anniversary of the atrocity.

In this edition of The Anchorage Weekender, we’ve put together a list of things the whole family can do. From the citywide Juneteenth celebration to an all-weekend rodeo, here are nine events ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in ...

The Anchorage Summer Night Market on Fridays is one of several weekly summer events in the park.

In September 1944, the US Navy captured Ulithi Atoll and used it to support the Allied advance. The remote atoll hosted hundreds of ships for repair and rearmament and allowed troops to rest ...

The Mothball Fleet isn't just one group of ships but rather a collection of inactive ships. Some are maintained to be reactivated in the event of an emergency.

The saltiest body of water near landlocked Wichita Falls might be Lake Kemp, but the U.S. Navy is not letting a lack of ocean waves get in the way of celebrating a Navy Week in the city. In fact ...

The commander of the Navy’s northwest region issued the apology during an at-times emotional ceremony Saturday, the anniversary of the atrocity.