While exploring the wild landscape around Nome, Alaska, the group unexpectedly comes across a baby spotted seal resting ...

Get a bird’s-eye view of the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield from a seaplane. Hop on a boat for a whale-watching and wildlife-viewing tour where you may spot humpback or killer whales. Ride the ...

In January 1925, a diphtheria epidemic tore through Nome, Alaska. The closest medication was over 500 miles away — and the ...

The Federal Aviation Administration closed seven of the stations after placing a number of employees on administrative leave ...

When the “three lucky Swedes” discovered gold at Anvil Creek in the Bering Strait region in September of 1898, they touched off a frenzy that transformed a once-peaceful corner of Alaska. “Imagine a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Nome River and part of the Kougarok Road on the east side of Nome are seen in the fall of 2025. Land along the river acquired ...

NOME, Alaska — To the unimaginative eye, the view of Nome, Alaska, from Joy Baker’s well-heated SUV looked like a whole lot of nothing: The early winter sun was sliding below the horizon barely four ...

Nome, population 3,700, is accessible only by plane outside a few months when boats can pass through. But it will be the home of the nation’s only deepwater Arctic port. Remaking America Nome, ...

Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan is about twenty paces wide, curb to curb. Front Street, the main business street in Nome, Alaska, about four thousand air miles to the northwest, is two paces ...

An outbreak of diphtheria inspired a celebrated sled dog relay of nearly 700 miles to deliver lifesaving serum to the remote town of Nome. By Jeré Longman Jirdes Winther Baxter, the last known ...

Tucked away in Alaska’s far northwestern corner, Nome stands as a testament to what happens when frontier spirit meets breathtaking isolation. Ever had that feeling where you just want to point to the ...

Tucked away in Alaska’s remote northwestern corner, Nome stands as a frontier outpost where reality and fantasy blur into something extraordinary. If you’ve ever wondered what it might feel like to ...