With temperatures rising to around 86 degrees in Fairbanks, residents in Alaska got their first-ever heat advisory.

A meteorologist at the National Weather Service office, she had the dubious honor of issuing the state’s first-ever official ...

For the first time, the state known for glaciers, dogsledding and northern lights issued a heat advisory, with Fairbanks ...

The state, which previously issued information about high temperatures using special weather statement, has issued its first ...

For the first time in recorded history, a heat advisory was issued for several communities in the Alaska interior. For ...

While the temperatures in the forecast wouldn’t be considered extreme in other U.S. states, most Alaska buildings don’t have ...

This is the first year that local Weather Service offices have begun issuing heat advisories. Before this month, any risk of ...

To call a heat advisories in Alaska, temperatures must be forecast to reach maximums of at least 75 to 85 degrees depending on location.

The first advisory is for Sunday in Fairbanks, where temperatures are expected to top 85 degrees Fahrenheit (29 degrees Celsius). Fairbanks has has been warmer in the past, but this is unusual for ...

The Juneau and Fairbanks weather service offices have been allowed to issue heat advisories beginning this summer, but not the office in the state’s largest city of Anchorage — at least not yet. And, ...