NOME, Alaska — Along the remote western edge of Alaska, just before it hits the narrow strait dividing America from the Russian Far East, Rolland Trowbridge is holding a contraption he designed ...

Rep. Neal Foster, D-Nome, was excused absent. Speaking on the House floor, McCabe said he thinks it’s a mistake for Alaska communities to rely on federal funding and that the state is owed land ...

As Alaska legislators confront a major state budget ... Other notable clawbacks included $10 million for a proposed deep-draft port in Nome, and $138,611 remaining in an account to be used for ...

“My heart is broken over the news out of Nome. Alaska is a big small town,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Ala.) wrote on the social ...

Nome, western Alaska's largest community, had about 1,400 residents a century ago. Its most recent supply ship arrived the previous fall, before the Bering Sea froze, without any ...

They were part of a group of mushers and sled dogs that braved frigid conditions to bring life-saving serum to the Alaska town of Nome 100 years ago. A statue in New York's Central Park ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a ...