A World War II-era plane crashed along a river near Fairbanks, Alaska, according to Alaska State Troopers. Troopers said in an online dispatch a Douglas C-54, a four-engine propeller transport ...

Though their timing was off — the Civil War was over for two months when the Shenandoah reached Alaska waters from England (after an eight-month trip around the southern capes of Africa and ...

On the Alaska Highway project ... becoming one of the first recognized heroes of World War II. The Tuskegee Airmen broke through another of the military's barriers. During World War II, the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of ...

Before the United States entered World War II, few Americans would have suspected that the territory of Alaska would play a role in America's fight against the Axis powers. In 1940, Alaska was ...

Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell [email protected] is a ...

Downtown Skagway, Alaska, in 2020. The only road to the small coastal town of about 1,200 people is through the Yukon and B.C., and many residents and businesses rely on Whitehorse — a 2-hour ...