"Alaska Air National Guard"

The hunters spent about two hours “just hanging on to a cliff face” thousands of feet above the ground.

AN SOS message from the snowmachiners said they were out of fuel and not dressed for the weather and that one of them was going into hypothermic shock.

The Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th  Wing identified the Russian aircraft on Oct. 21 when they entered international airspace off Alaska.

An Alaska Air National Guard spokesperson says the Guard’s 176th Wing provided two C-17 cargo planes and four aircrews to help U.S. forces evacuate Americans and others from Afghanistan.

The Alaska Air National Guard rescued the pilot of a crashed Cessna airplane near Lime Village on April 7.

A Mat-Su Borough man was killed in a floatplane crash on Tuesday in Prince William Sound, about 20 miles southwest of Valdez. It’s the third fatal floatplane crash in Alaska this month.

Anchorage police Lt. Nancy Reeder has accepted Fairbanks Mayor Jim Matherly’s offer to serve as the city’s new police chief.

The Alaska Air National Guard search and rescue program conducts both combat and civilian recovery missions.

A C-130 cargo plane loaded with presents for children was stopped on the runway as the earthquake hit. The plane was part of Operation Santa Claus, an annual tradition of the Alaska National Guard and the Salvation Army.

Dozens of helicopter pilots and maintenance personnel from Alaska’s Air National Guard are heading overseas to combat the Islamic State.