Three Alaska Native tribes have filed a lawsuit to overturn the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit granted to a company seeking to dredge for gold in a sensitive wetland area near Nome. The tribes, ...

Gold was discovered in the Fairbanks area in 1902 when Italian immigrant Felix Pedro struck it rich. He put Fairbanks on the map and thousands of men rushed to interior Alaska in search of the ...

Everyone can apparently relax, at least for now: The dredging ships scooping up sand about 10 miles off Flagler Beach for the beach renourishment project are not threatening a reef that is home to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Subsistence cabins are seen dotting the horizon on the other side of Safety Sound near Nome on Sept. 30, 2020. The sound is an ...