About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ...

The people killed in the crash in Alaska included a group of engineers from the Anchorage area, a teaching mentor from the Mat-Su and four Nome and Unalakleet residents.

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...