A death toll in the thousands. An invasion of American soil that led to a bloody infantry battle in a punishing environment. As the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Attu approaches, here's a detailed look at what happened, and commemorative events this week in Anchorage.
Book review: "The Klondike Stampede” was originally published in 1900. For anyone drawn to pioneer-era history, it’s a must.
The boundary between Alaska and Canada is 1,538 miles long. That line is obvious in some places, and invisible in others.
In the early 1900s, Ernest Leffingwell lived for nine summers and six winters in a cabin on Flaxman Island, a wedge of sand off Alaska’s northern coast.
The remote village in a cash-poor region is running a research repository for ancient artifacts dating to the time before contact with Russians and other outsiders.
Recounting a few memories and quips to celebrate the fact that fellow Alaskans never quite got around to throwing me out of the state.
Two hundred northern Midwest families founded the Matanuska Colony in Palmer in 1935. But today, as farms give way to subdivisions, some surviving Colony barns are getting new life.
Think it's rugged hunting these days, with your side-by-side, cellphone and other technological improvements? Consider how explorers had it around the turn of the century.
The man who did more than anyone to introduce the world's most successful invented language to English-speaking people lived in Fairbanks for 40 years.
It is not clear if the bank cashier told the state policeman, "Point your gun at me," "Please point your gun at me," or, "Would you mind pointing your gun at me?"
Thousands of laborers — many of them foreign born — went underground for one of the most difficult and dangerous jobs in the world: mining.
An outstanding history lesson, “Seward’s Folly” reminds us that America doesn’t exist in a bubble and that even what we have done on our own continent has global ramifications.
A retired Nebraska doctor donated $70,000 to save a piece of homestead history in Alaska -- an Allis Chalmers tractor from a site along the Stony River.
The Alaska civil rights leader who was crucial to the passage of the Alaska Anti-Discrimination Act in 1945 will join Sacagawea on a $1 U.S. coin, to be issued in 2020
Every June, the Air Force returns to Colony Glacier in the Chugach Mountains to recover what remains from a fatal plane crash in 1952. There’s no way to know how much of the wreckage has already tumbled into the lake at its terminus.
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.
