ANCHORAGE — Miners were pulling gold out of eastern Alaska even before the thousands of fortune hunters rushed north to the Klondike gold fields next door in Canada’s Yukon Territory ...

Two colleagues with the Bureau of Land Management developed the guide to identify and date the many Hills Bros. coffee cans found at old cabin sites.

While Addie Braxton apparently never returned to the gold fields, James apparently stayed. An item in the Omaha Monitor in June 1920 said he had recently died in Alaska.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took an unusually strong step Tuesday and blocked a proposed mine heralded by backers as the most significant undeveloped copper ...

Only a handful of operating mines exist in Alaska, but with the price of gold and other metals booming, more than 75 new mines are proposed, according to a new online map that provides key facts ...

Alaska didn’t have a mental institution for most of its history. Men and women of the gold rush and after were “put away” in Morningside, the legendary Portland institution.

Fellow rock hunters tried to save a 50-year-old who had a medical emergency while in an abandoned mine on an island in Alaska, but they were unsuccessful, officials said.

A 50-year-old from Washington state died while rock hunting in an abandoned gold mine on an island in Alaska, officials said.

Braxton went there to prospect several years after the Klondike gold rush. There hadn’t been many women in the Alaska gold fields, and Black prospectors were said to be few.