The recent Interior Alaska Farm Forum in Fairbanks, which reached maximum attendee capacity shortly after its announcement, underscores a significant and growing interest in agriculture within the ...
In the Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome a contagious disease known as the “strangling angel” put the town under siege 100 years ...
Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...
On Feb. 2, 1925, the legendary Alaska Serum Run ended as the last of a series of dog mushers brought life-saving medication ...
Gunnar Kaasen poses with his original dog team, including his lead dog Balto, top row, second left, in 1925, which he drove through a blinding blizzard to ...
The total cost of purchasing the 14-karat gold railroad spike at auction, to reclaim a piece of Alaska Railroad history, was ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image provided by Christie’s Images shows a golden spike driven by President Warren G. Harding in ...
Harding drives the final golden spike at the new Alaska Railroad bridge in Nenana, Alaska. Credit: AP Even today, there are few highways in the nation’s largest state; one of the busiest is ...
He sent the spike back from Seattle for the Harding event in Nenana, a community in interior Alaska. Harding was the first president to visit Alaska. During the ceremonial launch of the railroad ...
His first year on the sled, he scratched. But the Nenana musher has continued to improve his standing at the race considered a major test for mushers with an eye on longer distance races like the ...
The first dog team to cross the 2025 Copper Basin 300 finish line in Glenallen belonged to Jessie Holmes of Nenana. His 10-dog team came across the finish line on Monday around 3:20 p.m ...