Largest evacuation in recent memory underway
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Alaska State Troopers said that one person, 67-year-old Ella Mae Kashatok, was killed in Kwigillingok. Two people in the village remain unaccounted for, the agency said in a Facebook update on Tuesday, announcing that search-and-rescue efforts were ending.
Alaska is dealing with one of its biggest emergency responses in decades after the remnants of Typhoon Halong hit coastal villages
The city of Anchorage is tearing down abandoned houses that have become neighborhood eyesores and can attract criminal activity. Officials with the first-ever program say it’s starting small, but they’re looking to expand it. The goal is cleaning up ...
Damage to remote Alaska villages hammered by flooding last weekend is so extreme that many of the more than 2,000 people displaced
The Philippine Honorary Consul in Alaska is currently determining whether Filipinos are among those affected by the massive flooding in western Alaska as a result of Typhoon Halong’s wrath.
A massive rescue effort is taking place in western Alaska in the aftermath of Typhoon Halong. Military planes have airlifted people out of isolated villages. The circumstances were called one of the most significant evacuations in the state's history.
Officials are evacuating hundreds of Alaskans after a powerful storm system hammered the state’s western coast this week, in what the National Guard described as one of the largest airlifts