Alaska. The spiral made its way across the sky's green and red hues for about three minutes before disappearing over the tree line near Trapper Creek, about 100 miles northwest of Anchorage.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory has revealed that recent overflights of Mount Spurr, which is near Anchorage, found 'significantly elevated volcanic gas emissions' Gabrielle Rockson is a staff ...

Thursday's tragedy however marks just one in a long history of chilling crashes over a region known as the 'Alaska triange'.The triangle is a large, remote area between Anchorage, Juneau ...

Mount Spurr, located about 75 miles West of Anchorage, has been acting up in recent weeks, prompting officials at the U.S. Geological Survey and Alaska Volcano Observatory to issue a yellow alert.

It is an 11,070-foot tall, ice- and snow-covered volcano roughly 80 miles northwest of Anchorage. Mount Spurr is one of 53 volcanoes in Alaska that have been active within the last 250 years.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory on Wednesday said Mount Spurr is at risk of erupting within the next few weeks or months, potentially impacting residents 78 miles away in the city of Anchorage.

Also known as the aurora borealis, this spellbinding phenomenon – when brilliant hues of green, yellow, red and purple dance across the night sky ... of Alaska, where you'll find Anchorage ...

The trio had flown by helicopter to a remote mountain range near Anchorage in the US state ... A spokesperson for Alaska State Troopers told Sky News that the weather and the continued risk ...