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 ...

I learned about this local community group on a long Saturday walk with friends, just for exercise. I was walking next to Jule Magee, who happened to volunteer with Equine-Assisted Therapy of Alaska.

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 last week, the ...

Dogs — check. Cats — check. A miniature horse? Maybe. Peacocks, pigs, or monkeys? Sorry. Starting Monday, Alaska Airlines will enforce new rules for emotional support animals and service animals on ...

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 ...

If you think squeezing into an airline seat is hard, try fitting in a miniature horse. The tiny equines are now allowed on Alaska Airlines flights as of Oct. 1, if they are a trained service animal.

Researchers found that a broader diversity of plants in the Arctic 40,000 years ago supported both more -- and more diverse -- big animals like horses, bison and ground sloths. The research could ...

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 ...