PALMER — When last month's cold snap came on, no one at Bart and Beth Theisen's horse-boarding facility thought to plug in the block heater on the skid steer -- a small diesel-powered construction ...

(AP)—A miniature horse named Zoe is helping a special needs preschooler at an Alaska elementary school deal with mobility problems. The young animal is being trained to help 4-year-old Zaiden Beattie ...

In the 30 years he’s worked at Alaska Airlines, Ray Prentice has never actually heard of a miniature horse boarding one of its flights. But with a new policy that went into effect this week, the ...

Alaska is in the midst of a hay shortage. The weather has a lot to do with it, and many of Alaska's hay farmers are seeing crops about half the normal size. Most hay is a form of grass cut or ...

Climate change, rather than hunting, may have triggered the extinction of Alaska’s native horses about 12,500 years ago, researchers reported in the current issue of Nature. R. Dale Guthrie of the ...

Caballoid horses in Alaska were probably part of the diverse Eurasian species complex of the stocky Equus ferus, judging from their fossil anatomy 7,8 and preserved mitochondrial DNA 9. In contrast, ...

ANCHORAGE, AlaskaANCHORAGE, Alaska — A young miniature horse in sneakers is helping a 4-year-old special needs child at an Anchorage public elementary school. Zoe, a black mare, is a service animal ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A young miniature horse in sneakers is helping a 4-year-old special needs child at an Anchorage public elementary school. Zoe, a black mare, is a service animal for preschooler ...