Shields, the first woman to finish the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, died earlier this week in Fairbanks at age 80. She was remembered as an amiable Alaskan whose love for her dogs and adventure ...

Travel columnist Scott McMurren offers alternatives for a short trip, a weeklong stay and a longer journey through the state.

WMBD viewers and a group of couples from Wisconsin, the Quad Cities, and Indianapolis embarked on a 13-day Holiday Vacations ...

Agencies monitoring wildfires in Alaska have downgraded the state to Preparedness Level 4 (PL4) as of Saturday morning.

Check out our week-long 3 Alaska National Parks Trip report including Denali National Park, Kenai Fjords National Park, ...

Alaska’s senior U.S. senator said the state fares better under Republicans’ budget plan because of her efforts to soften the fiscal blow ...

All three devices are certified to U.S. military standards, passing 22 MIL-STD-810H tests, and IP68 rated. Translation: They ...

During the mid-1960s the News-Miner did a couple of stories about Athabaskan Elder Paul Solomon and his recollections of ...

A genomic analysis of Greenland’s Qimmeq dogs suggest they and their human partners arrived on the island centuries earlier than previously thought.

At a high school in Northern Norway, teenagers take a "gap year" to disconnect from technology and learn how to dog sled and ...

The most frequently collected items in Alaska, as recorded by cleanup volunteers, are fishing net and net pieces; fishing ...

Race cachet gives the history of the St. Ignace Sled Dog race which is held each year on the last Saturday of January and follows the mail route along the lakes from Detroit.