"This history is vital to addressing the disproportionalities that affect modern tribal communities," and solutions must ...

Thousands of people were on hand Thursday night for America250, which kicked off a year of patriotic festivities leading up ...

Alaska schools are hiring teachers from the Philippines amid a massive national shortage. It’s the latest wave of immigrants from Southeast Asia to come to the state. This is part one of a five ...

As a history teacher seeking to revive interest in Alaska’s past, Mr. Seavey was part of the first Iditarod dogsled race in 1973 on a 1,000-mile trail to Nome.

The Alaska Native Heritage Center Is a Home of Ancestral Knowledge The Anchorage institution exists to be a purposeful, active place where culture is embodied, enacted, and shared.

14. Nome-Beltz Nanooks (Alaska) Only one U.S. state has polar bears, but that hasn’t stopped high schools all over the country from choosing Polar Bears as their mascot.

Carol Mendiola Mooers, 48, one of the 10 victims aboard the doomed Bering Air Flight last week, was a school counselor for the Unalakleet School in Alaska and “on her way to go pick up students ...

Wreckage of a crashed plane found about 34 miles southeast of Nome, Alaska, on Feb. 7, 2025. The crashed plane is believed to be a Bering Air Caravan carrying 10 people which went missing on Feb. 6.

The antitoxin used to treat it was developed in 1890, and a vaccine in 1923; it is now exceedingly rare in the U.S. Nome, western Alaska’s largest community, had about 1,400 residents a century ago.

FARGO — The temperature in Nome, Alaska, reached 44 degrees Dec. 11. This is the warmest temperature recorded in Nome during the month of December on record; a record that dates back well over ...

She wanted to keep oral history at the center of the project. She took what she knew from her own family history and zoomed out to look broadly at what was happening in the 1940s with the Alaska Equal ...

Two men with ties to Wyoming made a name for themselves in Alaska in the late 1920s and early 1930s as pioneer bush pilots, aircraft mechanics and less fortunately crash victims. One of them, who ...