Towering over the landscape at 20,308 feet in height, Denali is the tallest mountain in North America, making it a popular target for mountain climbers. The goal of the National Park Service is to ensure a safe climbing season for all of them, and the soldiers of 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation…
This late 1920s photo shows the Chena River as the ice goes out during breakup. The photo was taken on First Avenue near Cowles Street looking upstream at downtown Fairbanks.
For the longest time, the life of the whitefish remained a mystery. Not any more.
His long-term goal was to acquire “everything ... published on Alaska by Alaskans.”
On Christmas Day in 2002, Jean McDermott was on a plane bound for Fairbanks, coming to visit a friend. It was her first trip to Alaska. Smoke began to fill the cabin of the brand new jet. Juneau was too stormy for an emergency landing. So the plane was diverted to Yakutat.
It's a community of birds, people and science.
Birds, bugs, wolf tracks. Yep, it's springtime.
With returning song birds filling an awakening forest with music and geese speckling the sky, break-up always proves exciting.
Robert Hunter Fitzhugh, Jr., was a civil engineer in Chicago who caught gold fever in 1897, one of thousands of Americans who abruptly abandoned their lives and scrambled north when word of the Klondike gold strike reached the United States.
For the lifelong Fairbanks resident, her story is one of not giving up on your journey and following your dreams.
Several times over the years, rock-and-ice avalanches have blasted down Iliamna at 150 miles per hour.
The building shown in the drawing, at 500 Third St. in Cordova, was originally the home of Samuel Blum and his family. Blum was a banker and merchant who was active in Southeast and Southcentral Alaska from the late 1890s until the mid-1910s.
"Bugs are not very popular,” woodcarver Marianne Stolz said, “but they’re very important.”
As recently as 2010, the award-winning teen novel “Looking for Alaska” topped the American Library Association’s list of books most often challenged by parents and community members, thanks largely to a single sex scene.
The Alsek, a world-class rafting river that flows into the Gulf of Alaska from its headwaters in Canada, may soon abandon the lower part of its drainage for a steeper one 15 miles away.
Our old horse Harpa died at her Fairbanks retirement home in late March. Such a good horse she was, leaving many fond memories, like when the trainer, Christine, first demonstrated her gaits at the Icelandic Horse Farm in Canada. I loved her wide, dark eyes and long, black mane falling over …
Not every child in Alaska befriends a bear, and in the real world, this is best for both children and bears. But in the world of kids’ books, there are times when a child and a bear need each other.
Volunteer Mark Rippy has been chosen to receive the Spirit of KUAC award for 2021. Rippy has been an on-air host for KUAC FM 89.9 for 10 years. A former high school teacher, he had worked in commercial radio in the 1970s and 1980s.
While out on a springtime snow trail, I recently saw a dozen white-winged crossbills pecking at snow on the side of the trail. When I reached the spot, I saw a yellow stain from where a team of dogs had paused.
Immediately preceding and during World War II the Civilian Aeronautics Administration (CAA was the predecessor to the FAA) built and upgraded airports across the United States as part of a national defense program.
While discussing her three books, which range from a short story collection, to a personal memoir, to her new volume of nonfiction essays, Rosemary McGuire said the constant themes in all of her works are the Earth, its ecosystems and how they impact its inhabitants. “That gets put in my boo…
Sharice Davids has been a lawyer, a mixed martial artist and congresswoman. Now, she’s added another job to her resume: children’s author.
Researchers want to know more about what's causing smaller salmon.
What is the magic that keeps sled dogs going and going?
Miki Collins says that winter trapping is changing.
"Arctic: culture and climate” was a recent exhibit at the British Museum that is just one of millions of events across the globe at least partially derailed by the pandemic. An examination of the many Indigenous peoples of the northernmost region of the Earth, it explored the history, cultur…
Building it is part social event, part contest, part innovative design.
The author offers tips on family excursions close to home and in the backcountry.
Wait — they can climb trees, too?!
Roadside lodges played a big part in Alaska's early years.
Spring is coming ... soon? Here are six new paperbacks to help you get there — four fiction, two memoir, all recommended.
