The Alaska Volcano Observatory says that if the more than 11,000-foot-tall, snowcapped volcano erupts, the impacts could include: Damage to aircraft from ash, especially since 60,000 planes fly ...

Alaska acquired dozens of Airbus A320 family jets during its merger with Virgin America. It's now retiring them in favor of an all-Boeing fleet.

Unalakleet is a community of some 690 people in western Alaska, about 150 miles southeast of Nome and 395 miles northwest of Anchorage. Nome is known as the finish line of the 1,000-mile Iditarod.