The weather has helped with firefighting efforts in the Interior. Progress has been made on the Aggie Fire, now 2% contained, ...

Alaska wildfire crews shifted focus to the Nenana Ridge Complex as the state's fire preparedness level dropped, while a ...

Chief of Fire and Aviation for the Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire Protection, Norm McDonald, said crews look at a few things to make the decision to change preparedness levels, including the ...

Local firefighters have been sent to Alaska to battle a significant wildfire in the far northwestern state as part of a 20-person crew organized by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and ...

Alaskans have shown interest in online smoke and air-quality advisories after a surge of lightning-caused fires across the Interior.

Alaska wildfire crews are gaining ground thanks to rain, but dry fuels and over 4,600 lightning strikes this week have ...

More than 530 wildfires have burned an area the size of Connecticut in Alaska this year alone, with heat waves and droughts exacerbating a warming climate.

After decades in Fairbanks and even a few close calls in wildfire country, it wasn’t until my son joined the North Star fire ...

A map of new, lightning-caused fires the Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection actively responded to on Monday, July 24 near Delta and Salcha. (From Alaska Wildland Fire Information ...

The Bear Creek Fire, the state's largest blaze of the year, is burning along Alaska State Highway 3 and has forced the temporary closure of the roadway about an hour southwest of Fairbanks.

Alaska is burning this year in ways rarely or ever seen, from the largest wildfire in a typically mainly fireproof southwest region to a pair of blazes that ripped through forests and produced smok… ...