In 2025, Alaskans once more bore witness to historical past — a devastating storm, a presidential summit, the canonization of a saint. We additionally danced and competed, prayed and protested, and confirmed up for work, faculty and our communities. Through each season, we savored the state’s wilderness and the wildlife that lives there.
Daily News journalists photographed Alaska and Alaskans via all of it. Below is a set of our 2025 favorites.
A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter is silhouetted by a full moon because it climbed above the Chugach Mountains east of Anchorage on Nov. 5. (Bill Roth / ADN) An individual strikes their possessions as buildings are engulfed in flames throughout the abatement of the homeless camp at Davis Park in Anchorage’s Mountain View on June 17. (Bill Roth / ADN) Bertha Emelia Preciado, 86, second from left, and Micaela Arellano, 90, dance throughout a social group assembly for native Spanish audio system on Feb. 12 on the Anchorage Senior Activity Center. Both girls are initially from Mexico. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Senior Adella Judge (Eurydice), left, and junior Azra Brand (Hermes) rehearse with the remainder of the forged of Hadestown on Feb. 24 at West High School in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / ADN) A bat, probably a bit brown bat, flies near the floor of a stream close to the Eagle River Nature Center on Feb. 20. (Marc Lester / ADN) A Tesla Cybertruck passes a line of protesters on Feb. 17. At the time, Tesla CEO Elon Musk led the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Hundreds of individuals lined Sixth Avenue that day in downtown Anchorage to protest varied actions taken by President Donald Trump and his administration. (Marc Lester / ADN) Thousands collect for a “No Kings” protest on June 14 in downtown Anchorage, coalescing round frustration and anger with Trump administration actions. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Travis Beals departs the Iditarod checkpoint in Nenana on March 3. (Marc Lester / ADN) A canine in Gabe Dunham’s crew howls earlier than the Iditarod begins. Thirty-three mushers and canine groups started the 2025 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from Fairbanks on March 3. (Marc Lester / ADN) Paige Drobny is escorted by Nome police automobiles as she mushes down Front Street to complete the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 14 in Nome. Drobny completed in third place. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Jessie Holmes hugs his wheel canines after profitable the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race within the early morning of March 14. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Bethany Glathar, 15, and Eben Drebert, 16, speak on the sting of the dance flooring on the Pink Cadillac Country Bar & Dance Hall on March 10 in Muldoon. The Pink Cadillac hosts a daily “Buckaroos” night time, which turns the nation bar into an all-ages, alcohol-free house. (Loren Holmes / ADN) A bunch removes meat and blubber from a useless fin whale that washed up close to the mouth of Fish Creek in late 2024, in preparation for eradicating the skeleton for eventual show in a museum, on March 27 in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / ADN) West High School monitor and subject crew runner J.T. Gurney, a sophomore, does an interval exercise on a slushy monitor throughout a snowfall on April 9. (Marc Lester / ADN) Finola Borgese, left, and Keegan Canida, each of Girdwood, really feel sturdy wind on a quick cease at Beluga Point alongside Turnagain Arm on April 16. That day, the National Weather Service issued a excessive wind warning for the Anchorage Hillside and Eagle River. By the afternoon, wind gusts reached 91 miles per hour in Bear Valley, 71 miles per hour at Glen Alps and 58 miles per hour in Rabbit Creek, in line with the National Weather Service. (Marc Lester / ADN) Liubov and Oleksandr Chemeresyuk, at proper, attend a Sunday service at Word of Life Church in Delta Junction on May 4. The couple, who got here to Alaska from the Odesa, Ukraine, area, are amongst roughly 150 individuals who had come to Delta Junction since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. (Marc Lester / ADN) Agnesa Butenko helps her cousin Vitalii Korbutiak, 13, with English language instruction at Delta High School on May 5. (Marc Lester / ADN) Social work navigator Tanya Vandenbos and Officer Ruth Adolf, each of Anchorage Police Department’s HOPE Team, test on an individual at Davis Park in Anchorage on May 8. (Marc Lester / ADN) Dimond’s Anayah Sila, middle, reacts along with her teammates to a name from the referee in favor of Colony High School throughout the ASAA 4A highschool volleyball state championship sport on the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage on Nov. 15. (Photo by Emily Mesner for ADN) Fifth-grade trainer David Baldwin, at left with a black hat, leads fourth and fifth graders in a volcano train as the remainder of the scholar physique watches on the final day of college, May 21, at Lake Hood Elementary in Anchorage. Lake Hood closed after the college 12 months, and many of the college students went to both Turnagain Elementary or Northwood Elementary. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Skiers climb on the course groomed on Eagle Glacier for Alaska Pacific University’s Thomas Training Cente on Aug. 5. Coach Erik Flora stated the pure slopes of the world permits for groomed programs to imitate World Cup races. (Marc Lester / ADN) A procession follows the casket containing the stays of Saint Olga from the gravesite to St. Nicholas Church on June 19. Hundreds of individuals gathered in Kwethluk for the Orthodox Church in America’s canonization ceremonies for St. Olga. (Marc Lester / ADN) James Michael, son of St. Olga, attends a service to glorify her in Kwethluk on June 20. (Marc Lester / ADN) Fisherman Chad Tessier has an early morning smoke in the beginning of his day aboard the halibut longliner Oracle on June 4 in waters close to Unalaska Island. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Fishermen Chad Tessier, left, and Chase Oleyer take a break between units aboard the Oracle on June 4. (Loren Holmes / ADN) National Transportation Safety Board investigator Mark Ward examines the wreckage of a PA-32R-300 that crashed on the Big Lake airport on June 24. The pilot and passenger had been hospitalized with severe accidents. Next to Ward is Jeff Helmericks with Northern Aviation, LLC. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Mason Phillips, of Sacramento, California, bounds over rocks throughout Crow Pass Crossing path race. About 150 racers competed within the 2025 race, which follows a 23-mile course from Girdwood to Eagle River, July 19. (Marc Lester / ADN) Several hundred college students walked out of Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School on April 11 as a part of a coordinated effort with different highschool college students within the Anchorage School District to name for a rise in state training funding. (Marc Lester / ADN) Sen. Löki Tobin, D-Anchorage, takes a breath after the outcomes of the training funding veto override vote are displayed throughout the joint session of the Legislature on the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on Aug. 2. At left is Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, and at proper is Sen. Forrest Dunbar, D-Anchorage. (Marc Lester / ADN) Mike Mason, workers member for Sen. Löki Tobin, pumps his arms after a information convention with Senate members after the override vote. A joint session of the Alaska House and Senate voted to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s training invoice veto on the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on May 20. (Marc Lester / ADN) Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks to reporters throughout a information convention on the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on May 19. (Marc Lester / ADN) After the House adjourned for the legislative session, Nellie Unangiq Jimmie, D-Toksook Bay, posed for pictures with colleagues and danced outdoors the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on May 20. (Marc Lester / ADN) Commencement speaker Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, appears over her to father Frank Murkowski, 92, a former Alaska Governor and U.S. Senator, who was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws throughout the University of Alaska Anchorage spring graduation on the Alaska Airlines Center on May 4. (Bill Roth / ADN) President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin give a joint information convention at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Aug. 15. (Marc Lester / ADN) Several hundred protesters gathered alongside the Seward Highway close to Northern Lights Boulevard in Anchorage on Aug. 14, to protest President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Marc Lester / ADN) Claire Lubke holds a peace check in entrance of a giant banner that reads “Alaska stands with Ukraine,” on Aug. 14, to protest President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Marc Lester / ADN) Alaska resident Mark Warren received a new Ural motorcycle as a “private reward” from Russian President Vladimir Putin the day after his meeting with President Donald Trump. Photographed on Aug. 18. (Bill Roth / ADN) Winona Fletcher, center, takes a breath at the conclusion of the resentencing on Sept. 8 in Anchorage Superior Court. The new sentence made Fletcher immediately eligible for release after 40 years in prison for a notorious 1985 triple murder, committed when she was 14. (Marc Lester / ADN) Friends of Amelia Nowak and Derek Duerr pack a courtroom during a sentencing hearing for Matthew Davis, a former JBER soldier who killed two people while driving drunk in 2022, on Jan. 3 at the Nesbett Courthouse in Anchorage. Judge Peter Ramgren accepted a plea deal that gives Davis 30 years in prison for the incident, which killed 18-year-old Nowak and 20-year-old Duerr. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Cindy Berger, owner of Spenard’s iconic palm tree sign and the property it’s displayed on, celebrates the reinstallation on Oct. 1. (Marc Lester / ADN) A pink sky and the full moon are visible from the Elliott Highway north of Fairbanks on the morning of Feb. 12. (Marc Lester / ADN) Sand blows across the surface of dunes at Kincaid Park in Anchorage on a windy afternoon on Oct. 8. (Marc Lester / ADN) The Alaska National Guard transported 205 people displaced by Typhoon Halong from Bethel to Anchorage in a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft on Oct. 16. It was the second of multiple flights to transport people who evacuated Kipnuk and other affected villages in the region. (Marc Lester / ADN) Zacharias John, 19, looks at the devastation left by Typhoon Halong in Kipnuk on Oct. 17. John decided not to evacuate yet, but stay and help the few people who remain in the village. Officials from the Alaska National Guard and Sen. Lisa Murkowski toured Kipnuk days after Typhoon Halong devastated the village on the Western Alaska coast. (Marc Lester / ADN) People from Tuntutuliak arrive in Bethel on an Alaska Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook helicopter on Oct. 17. Alaska Army and Air National Guard personnel continued work to evacuate people from several Western Alaska villages, including Tuntutuliak and Kwigillingok, to Bethel, several days after Typhoon Halong caused widespread damage in the coastal region. (Marc Lester / ADN) Charlie Charlie enters his home, which was left damaged by water and mud, knocked off its foundation and tilting toward a riverbank by Typhoon Halong, in Tuntutuliak on Oct. 24. (Marc Lester / ADN) A dog from Kwigillingok looks out at AmeriCorps worker Elena Hamann at the Bethel Friends of Canines facility on Oct. 23. (Marc Lester / ADN) Napakiak resident Tony Larson said all the food stored in freezers inside and outbuilding near his home was spoiled by floodwater caused by Typhoon Halong. Photographed Oct. 23. (Marc Lester / ADN) Lower Kuskokwim School District fourth and fifth grade students displaced by the storm in Western Alaska attend class in College Gate Elementary School in Anchorage on Nov. 13. (Bill Roth / ADN) Irene Thomas serves up a bowl of moose soup during a Native food potluck at Saint Innocent Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Anchorage on Oct. 24. (Bill Roth / ADN) South Anchorage senior Arne Nedwick (13) pours Gatorade over the team’s head coach, John Lewis, after they defeated Bartlett High School in the ASAA Division I state championship football game at Colony High School in Palmer on Oct. 24. (Photo by Emily Mesner for ADN) Brandon Morris attempts to wrestle a steer to the ground while competing in the Chute Dogging event on the second day of the Rodeo Alaska “Tough Enough To Wear Pink” rodeo at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer on Aug. 24. (Bill Roth / ADN) Teammates gather on top of a culvert and cheer on the boys varsity runners during the Chugiak Mustang Smokin’ Stampede cross country meet at Beach Lake Trails in Chugiak on Sept. 20. (Photo by Emily Mesner for Anchorage Daily News) Megan Hutchinson ice skates on a small clearing at Westchester Lagoon on Nov. 20. Plowing and mopping had not yet begun at Westchester, which has some snow on most of its surface. (Marc Lester / ADN) A five-year-old Chinese Crested dog named Vidr who won best of breed gives owner and handler Mallory Wetherington a kiss while competing at the Alaska Kennel Club dog show at the Dena’ina Center on March 23. (Bill Roth / ADN) Gordon Severson, 95, works as a bailiff at the Nesbett Courthouse in Anchorage on June 23. (Bill Roth / ADN) A bull moose browses after a lightweight overlaying of recent snow close to South Fork Campbell Creek in Chugach State Park on Oct. 27. (Marc Lester / ADN) A sandhill crane walks alongside a pond on the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge close to Point Woronzof on May 15. (Marc Lester / ADN) A brown bear sow surveys a visitors jam whereas tending to her two cubs in Denali National Park and Preserve on Sept. 15. (Bill Roth / ADN) A black bear eats grass and dandelions on the forest flooring of Anchorage’s Kincaid Park close to Little Campbell Lake on May 29. (Marc Lester / ADN) A lesser yellowlegs strides via a small pond close to the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in West Anchorage as rain falls on June 9. (Marc Lester / ADN) A ptarmigan sprints throughout the street in Denali National Park and Preserve on Sept. 14. (Bill Roth / ADN) A pair of this 12 months’s calves accompany their mom round an East Anchorage neighborhood on June 30. (Anne Raup / ADN) A days outdated Mew Gull chick leaps from its nest on high of a totem pole alongside Fourth Avenue in downtown Anchorage on June 10, simply minutes after having been positioned again within the nest by a enterprise proprietor. (Bill Roth / ADN) Ghost, a snowy owl at Bird TLC, swallows a rat on Feb. 4. As a part of Bird Treatment and Learning Center’s “Love Hurts” fundraiser, workers fed a rat named after an ex-partner to considered one of its raptors for a $100 donation. (Marc Lester / ADN) A juvenile bald eagle launches from ice on the mudflats alongside the Anchorage coast on March 31. The carcass of a fin whale, which got here to relaxation in November 2024, drew many ravens and several other eagles to the world. (Marc Lester / ADN) The setting solar casts a heat glow on Mt. Hunter, left, and 20,310-foot Denali as a hiker takes within the views from the Glen Alps overlook within the Chugach State Park on Nov. 9. (Bill Roth / ADN) Anchorage firefighters used foam to battle a blaze at a regulation workplace being renovated on the nook of Sixth Avenue and Ingra Street in Anchorage on July 10. (Bill Roth / ADN) Monica Morterud kissed the gravestone of her late husband William Morterud, a Navy SEAL throughout Vietnam, after inserting flowers in his honor on Memorial Day on the Fort Richardson National Cemetery on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on May 26. (Bill Roth / ADN) Jack Dugoni of Burlingame, California swam between icebergs in Portage Lake close to the Begich, Boggs Visitor Center within the Chugach National Forest throughout a 70-degree day on July 27. “I love a cold swim,” stated Dugoni. (Bill Roth / ADN) Ron Passarella reacts to his pumpkin weigh-off results of 71 kilos throughout the nineteenth annual Alaska Midnight Sun Great Pumpkin Weigh-off on the Alaska State Fair in Palmer on Aug. 25. Passarella stated, “It’s the first time I’ve grown a seed in my life.” (Bill Roth / ADN) Reindeer weaved via people as they sprinted down Anchorage’s Fourth Avenue throughout the seventeenth annual Running of the Reindeer on the final weekend of the Fur Rendezvous winter competition on March 1. (Bill Roth / ADN) Joseph Vallie and his 7-year-old daughter Lyla slide down a hill at Anchorage’s Russian Jack Springs Park after snowfall on March 16. “We were planning to go bike riding today, but it snowed and now we are sledding,” stated Vallie. (Bill Roth / ADN) Victoria Lytle takes a photograph on Nov. 25, with three Anchorage firefighters who responded after she was mauled by a bear in July. From left are Ben Schultz, Sean McMillan, Lytle, and Stefan Isaly-Johns. Lytle thanked the firefighters, dispatchers, pilots and others concerned in her rescue. (Marc Lester / ADN) Family and buddies rejoice as Star Hunt crossed the stage throughout the University of Alaska Anchorage spring graduation on the Alaska Airlines Center on May 4. (Bill Roth / ADN) University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Aidan Hay catches his breath after crossing the end line. The first day of the U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships featured males’s and girls’s 10-kilometer freestyle races at Kincaid Park in Anchorage on Jan. 2. (Marc Lester / ADN) A layer of fog covers a lot of South Anchorage, together with O’Malley Road, on this view west from the Anchorage Hillside on Dec. 1. (Marc Lester / ADN)
