Southwest Alaska has the fastest-growing population in the state, according to new predictions from the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The Southwest region includes seven census ...

After 11 straight years with more residents leaving Alaska than arriving, the state for the first time projects a long-term population decline, according to a report released this week from the ...

Jan. 15—Alaska's working-age population continued its long-term decline in 2023 as more people continue to leave the state than move here, according to annual data released this month by the Alaska ...

Correction: The original version of this article stated that Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough are forecast to continue growing in population. Anchorage and the Mat-Su are grouped together ...

If you drive across the Rust Belt in the Lower 48, you’ll encounter them here and there: half-empty towns with schools and storefronts boarded up, waiting for an economic upswing that may never come.

Haines, pictured above on April 3, is Alaska's oldest borough with a median age around 50. The next oldest borough in the state is Wrangell. Alaska has returned to a period of slow-but-steady ...