Alaska police say a brown bear attacked a woman as she hiked on a popular trail in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains.

The incredible encounter was captured "in one of the most remote places left on the planet," Casey Cooper told Newsweek.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy has canceled a broadly supported bill proposed by a legislative task force and intended to help commercial fishers in Alaska.

President Donald Trump said the US and Japan are close to a deal to jointly export liquefied natural gas from Alaska, potentially boosting a long-delayed project that’s struggled to gain traction.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said it had detected and tracked a Russian military aircraft operating near Alaska on Tuesday, July 22, though it remained in international airspace. The Russian aircraft was operating in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), NORAD said, without specifying its type.

Former state Rep. David Eastman has won his lawsuit against Gov. Mike Dunleavy and the state of Alaska, successfully challenging the governor’s decision to allow a bill to become law

Whittier, the quirky port town at the western edge of Prince William Sound, is known for keeping people in close quarters. Almost all of the approximately 275 residents live in a single building, a converted military structure called the Begich Towers.

The Anchorage School District, the Kuspuk School District and the Fairbanks North Star Borough are part of a suit seeking to force the Trump administration to distribute $6.8 billion in frozen funds.

The state failed a test earlier this year that would allow it to use $80 million in federal money to offset its contribution to school districts. If successful, the state can continue using its typical funding structure for this fiscal year.

Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bill that would help provide lower interest loans to commercial fishers, claiming the state could not afford to pay for the investment amidst what he called a revenue crisis.

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