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WAINWRIGHT, Alaska — Only days before Royal Dutch Shell won government approval to sink a drill bit into the bed

The Arctic Imperative Summit wrapped up in Alaska Monday with an illustration of how slowly things move in the Far

A work crew back in the Western Alaska village of Stebbins, with security guards in tow, expects to complete a

Tony Gorn sometimes finds himself herding animals near Nome. However, the small town of about 3,500 people on Alaska’s Seward

Alaska Governor Sean Parnell’s plane ride Monday beyond the easy comforts of Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, met with an unexpected

Top U.S. Coast Guard officials say the agency is well-prepared for Arctic missions, even as the agency shops for an

A mob of teenagers in a Western Alaska village allegedly stole four-wheelers and taunted a foreman with racially charged threats,

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – To hear Ida Ross tell it, all she did was “help out the kids” for 40 years.

Just before the Environmental Protection Agency is set to hold hearings in Anchorage, Alaska, over its draft environmental assessment evaluating

Four rowers in July set out to do something dangerous and unprecedented: to row nonstop, and without support, across the

The news on Thursday that Peninsula Airways was phasing out of the air taxi service sector came as a surprise

Imagine paying $17.25 for a bag of sugar. Or how about $20.49 for a bag of flour. Or $8.99 for

There are some new, very tall figures between the spruce trees, sand dunes and boggy ponds that cover Fire Island,

The U.S. Coast Guard is launching a temporary base in Barrow, a town in Alaska’s Far North, beginning July 16

It’s easy to see how somebody could get lost in the craggy crevasses of Alaska’s Knik and Colony glaciers, located