This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The archaeological site of Nunalleq on the southwest coast of Alaska preserves a fateful moment, frozen in time.

Preservation Alaska’s annual list of endangered properties identifies sites in disrepar or and facing other threats, ...

Carnahan, former police officer, Fairbanks, Alaska There were only two police ... I think as far as social life and what you did off the job site." Al Fleming: "It was like Mother Goose Land ...

Alaska was shaken by a a 5.8 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday afternoon. The tremor, about 75 miles north west of Anchorage, shook buildings for about 15 to 20 seconds in the city at around 3 ...

Immense beyond imagination, Alaska covers more territory than Texas, California, and Montana combined. Wide swaths of the 49th state—aptly nicknamed the “Last Frontier”—are untamed and ...

Before the United States entered World War II, few Americans would have suspected that the territory of Alaska would play a role in America's fight against the Axis powers. In 1940, Alaska was ...

Students in the Earth Observation Club, an after-school program hosted by several rural Alaska high schools, presented their research during the Seismological Society of America annual meeting in ...

Residents in parts of Alaska, Montana, and Colorado ... The NWS Fairbanks office has been updating the alerts on social media site X (formerly Twitter). Winter Storm Warnings are currently ...

Alaska Air Group Inc. said it lost more in the first quarter than it previously estimated, but only because it changed how it recorded cash received from Boeing Co. as compensation for losses ...