After reaching Alaska, the duo of Laurence Lombard and Frederick “Pete” Blodgett spent some time in Southeast before ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Jimmy Carter will be forever linked to the fabric of Alaska, a character in the story of the 49th ...

The Harvard-trained lawyer wasn’t exactly an experienced pilot and didn’t even have a firm flight plan when he embarked on ...

Alaska historian and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Stephen Haycox walks through the honor aisle after receiving the Meritorious Service Award during the University of Alaska Anchorage's 2025 Spring ...

In his recent book “Black History in the Last Frontier,” University of Alaska Anchorage history professor Ian Hartman sheds light on the contributions Black people have made in Alaska before and after ...

Cover art from the free downloadable book "Black History in the Last Frontier," published by the University of Alaska Anchorage and the National Park Service. (From NPS) Fairbanks is celebrating Dr.

In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed John Weir Troy as Alaska’s sixth territorial governor. Alaskans, in a rare moment of accord, greeted the president’s appointment with a sigh of relief that ...

Scholars believe that Alaska's Native peoples descended from nomadic hunters and gatherers who crossed from Siberia to North America over the Bering Land Bridge some 20,000 years ago. Then in 1741 ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — On the third floor of the Rasmuson Library, just past the periodicals, is Room 334, a little-known office with an important purpose. Brightly lit with a litany of cameras, ...

Alaska is famous for its vast and rugged natural beauty. It is also notorious for having the highest murder rates in the country. “A person is more likely to be murdered in Alaska than any other state ...

Passengers on a Mother's Day Alaska Airlines flight got a special hello from the pilots and ended up being a part of history for the airline. Captain Tara Wright came out of the cockpit before the ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...