Alaska governor Sarah Palin and her unmarried teenage daughter who announced her pregnancy as her mother became the Republican vice-presidential candidate gave a frank TV interview about the issue.

IT IS only when the lights go out at the Pepsi convention centre that the real stars shine.

POLICE have arrested a group of students who had hatched an elaborate plan to cut off power and telephone services to their middle school, slay classmates and teachers with guns and knives, then escape from their small town in Alaska.

Five significant eruptions of Augustine Volcano sent ash clouds miles into the air and closed schools on the southern Kenai Peninsula.

A third major US wildfire near the Angeles National Forest has spread to more than 8,000 acres, threatening hundreds of homes on the edge of the Mojave Desert.

AN earthquake slammed a remote area of Alaska’s interior and delivered a jolt so strong that it created giant waves on lakes and ponds around the continent. The magnitude 7.9 quake was one of the strongest ever recorded in the United States.

A strong earthquake struck deep underground today, rocking much of Alaska and waking people 350 miles away.