Unalaska Police Blotter Makes for Great Alaska Literature

Tlingit Glass Artist Has First Show at Anchorage Museum

Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary says his artwork, now on display at the Anchorage Museum, is heavily influenced by his heritage. His...

Alutiiq Language Finds New Life Online

The Alutiiq language can now be learned online, thanks to an Internet course funded by the...

Historic Alaska Railroad Steam Locomotive Arrives in Anchorage

Steam engine 557, a 69-year-old Alaska Railroad locomotive, rolled into Anchorage for the first time in many years Tuesday.

Lonnie Dupre Begins January Denali Summit Effort

January on Mt. McKinley is something a little like the dark side of the moon, with winds of 100 mph, temperatures that plunge to -50 degrees...

Assignment Alaska, Historic Kalakala for Sale in Tacoma

The Kalakala, a historic ferry which has plied the waters of Puget Sound and was later used by Alaska fish processors on Kodiak Island, is...

Famous Alaskan Artist Featured at Anchorage Museum

The Anchorage Museum will display a rare complete set of 50 stone lithographs created from 1946 to 1980 by Alaskan artist Fred Machetanz.

Aleutian Goose: Last Flights of the Grumman Goose

The Grumman Goose that flies between Unalaska and Akutan doesn't have a name, but if it did, it might be called the Aleutian Goose, or maybe...

Entrepreneur Builds Ultra-Mobile Wheelchairs, Handcycles

Entrepreneur Bill Lasher was 16 years old when a skiing accident on Toilsome Hill Drive in Anchorage left...

Assignment Alaska: Noatak Discovery

Artist Ray Troll: Master of the Double Entendre

Reporter Jackie Bartz and photographer Mike Nederbrock profile a Ketchikan artist with a flare for the double entendre. 

Video: The Newest Stop on the Alaska Marine Highway System

Video: Rugged Mount Fairweather Golf Course Shows Off Alaskan Charm

VIDEO: Solstice Cemetery Tour Gives Anchorage History Lesson

A summer solstice tour of the Anchorage cemetery gives participants a taste of Anchorage's history.

Pacific Loon Web Camera Shows Off Rare Birds

South of Stevens International Airport, you'll find a web project that's getting international attention.

Growing Appetite for Alaska-Raised Pork

Farmers market season is just getting underway, and while shoppers wait for the first big harvest, they can sample something relatively...

VIDEO: Russian Medals For Alaska Sale to be Auctioned

New Ghost Tour Spooks Visitors and Locals

There's a new way to explore a side of downtown Anchorage, which had previously gone unknown to many visitors.

Old Glenn Highway Bridge Connects Alaska To An Earlier Time

If you travel the Glenn Highway frequently, you've probably passed it hundreds of times without batting an eye, or turning a head. Driving...

Haines Wildlife Center a Rare Find

It's unclear just what it is that draws visitors to a remote wildlife sanctuary, tucked away in the wilderness about 28 miles outside of the...

'Sailing for Salmon' Exhibit a Journey to Fishing's Past

They were known as double-enders: wooden fishing boats with identically shaped bows and sterns that once sailed the waters of Bristol Bay...

Talkeetna's Talented Artist Carves Miniature Community

VIDEO: Assak Totem Raising

Mala, the Man and His Movies, Part 1

The 1933 hit movie “Eskimo” is about to come out of obscurity, thanks to a recently published book about its leading man....

VIDEO: A Tour of Beaver, Alaska

Juneau Community Art Center Provides Support for Disabled

As you walk past The Canvas and peek inside, you might see what looks like an everyday community art studio and gallery.

New Novel Set Amid Fictitious Bush Epidemic

A blurb on the cover of “The Raven’s Gift,” a novel about an epidemic that sweeps rural Alaska, says it’s a “...

Riding the waves of the Alaska Marine Highway

It was a long, watery road down to Juneau for reporter Ted Land and photojournalist Jonathan Hartford. In Friday’s Assignment Alaska...

Retired Coast Guard cutter could find new life in Juneau

A dedicated group of Alaskans are trying to arrange a homecoming of sorts for a piece of maritime history, but not everyone thinks it's a...

Former Alaskan wins 'The Apprentice'

Thursday night the NBC reality show “The Apprentice” concluded with a former Service High Student being picked as Donald Trump's...

Historic watercolors headed back to Barrow

In 1826, Capt. Frederick Beechey of the British Royal Navy sailed his ship, the HMS Blossom, farther north than any other expedition had...

Sitka's Raven Radio unites diverse music, DJs

Jazz, rock, blues: whatever you can think of, it's played at Raven Radio in Sitka. But the small-town station’s true secret might be...

Armless pilot talks to kids about achieving dreams

There are two words 27-year-old Jessica Cox refuses to consider. They’re two words that likely would have kept her at home in Tucson,...

Ghosts give West High theatre students stage fright

West High School is known for turning out creative artists and dramatic performers. Maybe it's just their imaginations running wild, but the...

Hmong musician tries to preserve instrument's traditions

It's one of the oldest harmonic instruments in the world. In tonight's Assignment Alaska, Hmong musician Ricky Vang introduces Channel 2...

Taxidermist's model resurrects dinosaur

There is a new exhibit at the Alaska Museum of Natural History: a model of a troodon dinosaur made by taxidermist Russel Knight, who was...

Indelible images capture ANWR's beauty

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is turning 50 years old -- although the valleys, streams, and mountains are much older than that. They&...

Kenai Russian Orthodox church undergoing restoration

A sacred space, sacred time: It's the name and the feeling of the current exhibit at Kenai's visitor and cultural center.

Whittier honors Ted Stevens with museum

September sees year's final sportfishing

It's the end of two seasons: summer and fishing. In this week's Assignment Alaska, Channel 2's John Carpenter takes us on one last trip to...