In 1962, Capt. Charles Maultsby piloted a U-2 spy plane from Eielson Air Force Base to the North Pole and mistakenly drifted into Soviet air space at the height of the Cuban missile crisis.
Chair 1 was a workhorse known for giving skiers long, cold rides up the mountain.
On Saturday, people gathered at the Wings of Freedom hangar in Anchorage for a send-off party.
Professional help is on the way for a rare, repatriated instrument.
A century ago, the Treadwell Mine crushed 26 million tons of rock, producing $70 million worth of gold. Then disaster struck.
During Alaska's early days as a state, lawyers wrote their own rules, and their style in the courtroom was often more important than the substance of their argument.
From cleaning tobacco smoke to removing varnish without damaging the Sidney Laurence painting underneath, a conservator's work is both chemistry and art.
Hardcore hiker, woodworker, author, historian and guide John Branson isn’t slowing down much — even at age 70.
So what prompted Russia to withdraw from its American beachhead? And how did it come to possess it in the first place?
Anchorage musician Mr. Whitekeys played keyboard in the backup band when Chuck Berry came to Anchorage. Here's how that went down.
Will Woodin spent just one summer in the north, but his fortunately recovered account provides a timeless journey for readers, who will feel they traveled beside him.
Books offer a look back on some Alaska history in the 1700s and 1800s.
The sale of Alaska for $7.2 million was a mere footnote in the life of Tsar Alexander II, known to some as “The Liberator.”
Campfire remains, metal relics and a grave show that a remote site on Kruzof Island was the place were survivors took shelter after the Neva grounded and broke apart.
From 1963 to 1966, Sylvia Butcher helped fashion hundreds of pins out of clay collected from the beach cliff of Point Woronzof. Today they're considered highly collectible.
An unlikely hero for his feats in Alaska, Balto's was a story about the remarkable confluence of men and dogs who did the seemingly impossible.
Myths surround the history of the Mat-Su marijuana strain that once defined Alaska cannabis.
Quirky and packed with Alaska Native art, artifacts and animals, Joe's Museum is an unexpected treasure in the Far North.
A 1946 incident at a cocktail lounge in Fairbanks tested, for the first time, the state's Anti-Discrimination Act.
Art Beat: I argued with oft-repeated claim that John Muir was “an honorary Tlingit chief.” A more knowledgeable analysis was provided by James Crippen, an Alaskan pursuing his Ph.D.
