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The Alaska Triangle is an area between Utqiagvik, Anchorage, and Juneau. This vast region of unforgiving terrain in Alaska has a long history of unexplained disappearances dating back to before 1988.
In that vein, here is one of the humblest firsts in Alaska history, the first airplane. After months of secrecy, news broke on March 23, 1911. Henry Peterson, a music teacher in early Nome, was ...
Joseph Balderas, 36, was last seen on June 24, 2016, in Nome, Alaska. Four years later, on August 31, 2020, Florence Okpealuk, 33, vanished from the same town. Podcast host Payne Lindsey traveled ...
From January 27, 1925–February 2, 20 mushers and 150 dogs heroically transported desperately needed diphtheria antitoxin to the remote town of Nome, Alaska.
Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of this story. “I came to Nome in the late spring of 1900, a New York stenographer ...
Joseph Balderas, 36, was last seen on June 24, 2016, in Nome, Alaska. Four years later, on August 31, 2020, Florence Okpealuk, 33, vanished from the same town. Podcast host Payne Lindsey traveled ...
Alaska missing plane: What happened to the vanished Bering air flight near Nome. Rescue crews are in a race against time to find survivors aboard the Bering Air Flight 445 and are working in ...