Alaska is one of the best places in the world to see the aurora borealis – especially locations in the Interior and Arctic regions, such as Coldfoot, Wiseman, Utqiagvik (Barrow), Prudhoe Bay ...

Soviet exile Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, left, and cartoonist Shel Silverstein both visited Alaska at different points in their careers. (Wikimedia Commons) Part of a continuing weekly series on ...

Alaska-Chukotka: when cousins reunite Soviet times were hard for the indigenous people of the Russian Far East, but perestroika allowed them to reunite with their Alaskan cousins.

An excerpt from Holly Miowak Guise’s book documents how Indigenous people used sovereignty and subversion to preserve land and community during World War II.

A 14-year-old student opened fire at a Georgia high school and killed four people on Wednesday, authorities said, sending students scrambling for shelter in their classrooms — and eventually to the ...

Witness the aurora borealis in Alaska aboard a top cruise line like Holland America, Princess or Norwegian on one of the best northern lights Alaska cruises.

UTQIAĠVIK, Alaska (KTUU) - Within the walls of a nondescript building in the town of Utqiaġvik — the community formerly known as Barrow — is a hidden gem that houses an abundance of culture, history, ...

FILE - Fredrick Brower, center, helps cut up a bowhead whale caught by Inupiat subsistence hunters on a field near Barrow, Alaska, Oc. 7, 2014. After tidal surges and high winds from the remnants ...

Dear Tom,Barrow Alaska had its first-ever thunderstorm on June 20, 2000. What was the temperature that day in Barrow? Have thunderstorms occurred since then?—Scott Wilhelm, Chicago Dear Scott ...