Construction of the Alaska Highway officially commenced on April 11, 1942. Workers corduroy the road, Robert W ... The surveyors would map the exact route, and soon enough, the men behind them ...
The Society holds a vast collection of photographs, newspapers, and other materials regarding the Alaska Highway's construction. The soldiers and civilian contractors who worked on the road ...
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 ...
We are heading to Fairbanks, 400 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle in the Alaska Interior. It's late September, and a few days earlier, nature began a spectacle of bright, luminous colours.We head ...
Mike Dunleavy met with Ranj Pillai, the Premier of the Yukon Territory, the two leaders worked out an agreement to work on ...
Its 1939 report, Toll Roads and Free Roads, was the beginning of the concept for the Interstate Highway System. Throughout ...
Why ask, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" when you can instead consider, "Why did the road cross the land?" ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska ... road that would slice through Gates of the Arctic National Preserve, cross the Kobuk Wild River, and interfere with one of Earth’s greatest land migrations, of the Western Arctic ...
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 ...
Power was restored to the neighborhood at about 7:40 a.m. (Marc Lester / ADN) Downed power poles in South Anchorage Tuesday morning closed the Old Seward Highway ... near Dowling Road were left ...