From the Aleutian Islands to the North Slope, Alaska's massive and varied terrain has now been mapped in an unprecedented way, exactly a year after President Barack Obama announced the new Arctic ...

A new digital geologic map of Alaska is being released today, providing land users, managers and scientists geologic information for the evaluation of land use in relation to resource extraction, ...

Alaska officially became the 49th state of the United States on January 3, 1959. Before that, it was a U.S. territory, which was purchased from Russia in 1867 through the Treaty of Cession. It added ...

ANCHORAGE — Alaska-Miners were pulling gold out of eastern Alaska even before the thousands of fortune hunters rushed north to the Klondike gold fields next door in Canada’s Yukon Territory. But more ...