Valdez is an end-of-the-road town teeming with adventure and beauty, where visitors can fill their cups with great food, world-class fishing, Alaska history and locally brewed beer. Located at the ...

Imagine living in a town buried under 300 inches of snow each year. It might seem impossible, but that's the reality for residents of Valdez, Alaska. As the snowiest town in America, Valdez is a ...

The wrinkled Blackstone Glacier absorbs every color of the spectrum except blue, so the crevasses are a brilliant, Gatorade-like aquamarine. Megan Gambino Foamy salt water sloshes up onto the little ...

For more than 40 years, Alaskans have been gathering in the tiny coastal town of Valdez to celebrate the art of climbing ice Corey Buhay Alaska’s hardiest residents have gathered around the frozen ...

VALDEZ -- This city feels like a hamster maze. Eight-foot-tall walls of snow border icy, scraped-clean streets. Around every corner, a piece of heavy equipment is pushing, carrying or blowing snow. An ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began leaking ...

A heli-skier descends a mountain north of Valdez at Thompson Pass. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management working on a plan for permitting the next decade of heli-skiing on the lands it manages in the ...

At the end of the 19th century, an estimated 100,000 people joined the Klondike Gold Rush, seeking their fortunes in the interior of Alaska and Canada’s Yukon territory. Many gold seekers who chose ...