In Alaska Native Resilience, Holly Miowak Guise draws on oral histories and archival research to look at how Alaska Natives ...

Twenty mushers and 150 dogs took turns carrying a 20-pound package of life-saving serum. Here’s how they completed this ...

On July 3, 1925, legendary lawman Wyatt Earp wrote a heartfelt letter to silent film star William S. Hart, pleading with his ...

A city-led effort to turn a 15-acre field that once housed the Alaska Native Medical Center into an RV park and a mixed-use development has sparked a debate over homelessness, housing and downtown ...

Skagway was the very first incorporated city in Alaska, and it will celebrate that accomplishment on June 28 with a town ...

Although the phrase "based on a true story" should be taken with a pinch of salt, The Fourth Kind looked believable, despite ...

A pair of Alaskans had their work selected to represent the state at the 2025 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Michael Engelhard's "Arctic Traverse, A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the ...

For the first time, the state known for glaciers, dogsledding and northern lights issued a heat advisory, with Fairbanks pushing the mid-80s.

As a history teacher seeking to revive interest in Alaska’s past, Mr. Seavey was part of the first Iditarod dogsled race in 1973 on a 1,000-mile trail to Nome.

The antitoxin used to treat it was developed in 1890, and a vaccine in 1923; it is now exceedingly rare in the U.S. Nome, western Alaska's largest community, had about 1,400 residents a century ago.

14. Nome-Beltz Nanooks (Alaska) Only one U.S. state has polar bears, but that hasn’t stopped high schools all over the country from choosing Polar Bears as their mascot.