The life and suicide of a young man in the Inupiat village of Wales -- one of the most historical communities in Alaska -- reminds us of how much more we Alaskans must do to help our own.
For Mike Weyapuk, his short and tragic life in many ways tracked the horrific history and loss of his Bering Strait village of Wales, once one of the largest Native settlements in Alaska.
A security consultant, talented photographer and sometimes freelance journalist, Ikka Uusitalo was one of four Finns on a team climbing 20,320-foot Mount McKinley.
A frozen truck engine. An unexpected visitor. When the FBI went to take down sovereign citizen Schaeffer Cox and members of his militia, not everything went as planned during a staged weapons buy.
Too many encounters with humans led to the demise of a 2-year-old brown bear weighing about 300 pounds. Officials determined it wasn't Shaguyik, the bear that had escaped from the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center.