A massive flood has wreaked havoc on the Dalton Highway, Alaska’s critical lifeline to the Prudhoe Bay oil fields, leaving a gaping 80-foot-wide hole in the road. The disaster struck on Saturday, ...

Jun. 18—The road to Alaska's North Slope oil fields and the U.S. Arctic Ocean reopened Wednesday after snowmelt floods washed part of the road away, causing a five-day shutdown. The 415-mile Dalton ...

This June, a group of dedicated volunteers will head north on the Dalton Highway on a special four-day cleanup expedition. While not as frequented as many parts of Alaska, the Dalton Highway gets a ...

Flooding cut off part of the Dalton Highway for much of Tuesday after heavy rain hammered the northern Interior early this week. The highway connects the North Slope to the rest of the state. By ...

DALTON — As the town of Dalton awaits the arrival of its next highway chief, neighboring Hinsdale is in the hunt. There is a reason for that. Edward M. “Bud” Hall is poised to leave the same job in ...

FAIRBANKS — In the four years I’ve been in Alaska, travels have included five or six trips up the Dalton Highway to Deadhorse and into the Brooks Range simply because it’s my favorite part of the ...

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The Dalton Highway and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline are companions that rank among Alaska’s most vital and iconic pieces of infrastructure. The pipeline exists because of the highway. The highway exists ...