The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

Five minutes after squeezing into the Cessna 206 with three other giddy passengers, the blue-and-white six-seater zipped ...

Travelling in Alaska — the US’s final frontier — can feel like jumping through a wormhole. Time here is marked not by the ...

Since 1913, presidents normally deliver a State of the Union address outlining the nation’s priorities and achievements. But this year, there won't be a State of the Union, technically.

Housing, infrastructure, and services swell as residents flow to the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska’s growth locus for ...

I close out a series of winter articles with this account of a Baxter State Park ski trek of nearly 20 miles, hauling a ...

I n June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North America’s highest peak), six women ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

Sullivan said he would seek a waiver to a law that requires cruise ships to stop in Canada when traveling from the Lower 48 ...

How this project will contribute to your field of science: I conduct research in subarctic ecosystems in Denali National Park, Alaska that are currently experiencing rapid vegetation shifts to ...

Denali National Park, Alaska Denali National Park in Alaska is like stepping into a world where nature reigns supreme. It’s home to North America's tallest peak, Mount Denali, which towers at a ...

An Alaska state legislator has reintroduced a bill that would require the state to sell the Alaska Railroad. House Bill 120 ...