The payoff? Beautiful landscapes, wildlife, and a feeling of freedom. Scout the Alaska Highway's route with two AMERICAN EXPERIENCE producers. Building the Alaska Highway producers Tracy Heather ...

high-resolution maps of Alaska. He made good on that promise this week with the release of the first set of maps, called Arctic digital elevation models or ArcticDEMs, created through the National ...

Immense beyond imagination, Alaska covers more territory than Texas, California, and Montana combined. Wide swaths of the 49th state—aptly nicknamed the “Last Frontier”—are untamed and ...

WASHINGTON -- The Japanese threat to Alaska and the northwest Pacific was definitely lessened today with the announcement by Secretary of War Stimson that the 1,671-mile Alaskan-Canadian highway ...

See live updates of Alaska election results from the 2024 election, including Senate and House races, state elections and ...

Check out these awesome day trips from Anchorage, Alaska! They'll give you a great taste of The Last Frontier without the ...

In the early spring of 1942, when the Army Corps of Engineers arrived to begin building the Alaska Highway, Alaska's population was approximately 73,000. About half of those residents were Native ...

A state-owned operation founded in 1963, the Alaska Marine Highway primarily serves as a passenger, vehicle and freight service for British Columbian and Inside Passage ports that lack road access ...

To the best of my knowledge, these were the first elephants in Alaska. On their way to Alaska, traveling up the Alcan Highway ... revived by shopmen dispensing free smelling salts and cognac.” ...

The Alaska Native Heritage Center sits east of downtown Anchorage along the Glenn Highway and welcomes visitors daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. between May and September. The center is closed during ...