The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad in 1923 will for the first time be on permanent display in ...

The Anchorage Museum and the city of Nenana, joined forces to bring home the Golden Spike, an iconic piece of railroad ...

The total cost of purchasing the 14-karat gold railroad spike at auction, to reclaim a piece of Alaska Railroad history, was ...

University of Alaska President Pat Pitney appointed Parnell in 2021, and praised his leadership and service as chancellor of ...

The rain is part of a warm winter cycle for Alaska, while swaths of the Lower 48 freeze. Even New Orleans has gotten more snow than Anchorage this winter. New Orleans, LA has received more than ...

Donald Trump gives a speech during an Anchorage campaign rally at the Alaska Airlines Center on Saturday, Jul. 9, 2022. (Kendrick Whiteman/Alaska Public Media) On his first day back in office ...

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Alaska Airlines will launch two new flights to Anchorage this summer from the lower 48, making it easier to reach the Last Frontier. Starting June 14, the airline will launch weekly roundtrip ...

Early Thursday, the temperature here dipped to 26 degrees while in Alaska residents of Anchorage basked in 41 degrees. Anchorage has actually received less than 4 inches of snow this season − ...

"If folks in Ohio are really intent on naming Alaska places, maybe they’d let us name some of theirs?” joked Anchorage's Democratic mayor Ethan Berkowitz. Still, some Republicans continued to ...

Alaska made history in 2020 when it became ... looking to repeal ranked-choice voting and the open primary system, the Anchorage Daily News reported earlier this month, which obtained both repeal ...