Seward is among the most popular spots in Alaska, but a few miles south is a secret town with no crowds but plenty of charm, ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 1, 1946, a magnitude 8.6 earthquake ...

At the time of contact, they were the most numerous of the Alaska Native groups. Communities stretched from Prince William Sound on the north Pacific Coast to St. Lawrence Island in the central ...

Day 2: September 1 — Southeast Alaska’s Islands, Bays and Fjords: Today, nature is our guide as we set forth to view wildlife with the flexibility to take advantage of weather conditions. We may stop ...

Alaska, with its official nickname "Last Frontier," is indeed our wildest state. The climate is extreme, the topography largely inhospitable to agriculture, and much of the interior accessible ...

More than 20 years ago, when the Tlingit residents of Hoonah in coastal Alaska decided to build a ... now based on Chichagof Island, about 35 miles west of Juneau. Community leaders considered ...

A large circulation of low pressure moves into the Gulf of Alaska overnight and displaces a ridge of high pressure to the ...

the big Haida Gwaii Islands and southeast Alaska to the west and north, respectively. In between, open to the full fury of the Pacific, lies this coast. It stretches 250 miles as the raven flies.