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 ...

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 ...

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

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 — ...

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, ...

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 ...

UAA campus coffee shops are now operating on fall semester business hours. Seawolf Grounds, located in the Student Union, is open Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Kaladi Brothers Coffee, ...

“Sinners” is a film about the son of a preacher named Sammie — played by Miles Canton — who works on a plantation in Clarksdale Mississippi in the late 1930s. Sammie is invited by his twin cousins, ...

UAA had a lot to say about their sexual preferences — so much to the extent that we couldn’t include it all in the print. The Northern Light is here to share the rest of the results collected by the ...