The University of Alaska Anchorage held its homecoming dance on Oct. 17 at the Student Union. The dance — which was set to take place at the Alaska Airlines Center — was relocated to provide shelter ...

With colder temperatures on the way, Alaskans know what’s next: Wild ice skating — a phenomenon where skaters glide across ...

UAA hosted the STEM Day — Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics — on Nov. 1 to promote programs on campus and in ...

Political science major Sean B.F. Outlier stood outside the UAA Consortium Library on Oct. 23 to speak to the UAA community ...

UAA’s Alaska Airlines Center, or AAC, is housing approximately 320 displaced people from Western Alaska. Seawolf Athletics also continues to hold games in the AAC.

In February, the Board of Regents, known as BOR, voted 9 to 1 to purge its website and school of anything related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, in response to President Trump’s ...

Originally titled “UFO Abduction,” “The McPherson Tape” is presented as intimate home video footage of a quiet evening with the Van Heese family that spirals into an uncanny experience. The film — ...

This story is a part of The Northern Light’s investigative series into art culture on campus, which follows different groups at UAA and their experience with campus art. The Planetarium and ...

Disclaimer: A version of this story was revised using ChatGPT and submitted as a class assignment. No AI was used in the writing or editing of this version. When I came back to UAA in 2022 to study ...

Correction: 3/25/25 6:47 p.m. The headline of this story previously read "Eruption alert: Mount Spurr" and was changed to "Eruption update: Mount Spurr." The history of Mount Spurr spans 10,000 years, ...

Alaska is facing a sexual and reproductive health crisis. The state currently leads the nation in gonorrhea cases, ranks third for chlamydia, and holds the 11th highest rate of syphilis per capita.

On a Saturday afternoon, it was standing room only at Anchorage’s only romance bookstore, Beauty and the Book. Five authors were gathered for a panel on romance books, sharing everything from book ...