The Barrow Coastal Erosion Project calls for over 100,000 tons of armor rock to be placed along 5 miles of the North Slope ...

About 100 years ago, the town of Nome, Alaska, was a busy place with a population of more than 20,000, most of them gold seekers. Today, fewer than 4,000 people live here and prospecting for gold ...

It’s been a long and unproductive road for the Rock Creek Mine, but now that its being liquidated, money will finally flow into the pockets of its current owner, Bering Straits Native Corporation.

Peter C. Brown’s dramatic debut novel, “The Fugitive Wife,” is about the search for gold, love and integrity. Set in 1900, the story moves between the Nome, Alaska, gold strike and the flat ...

Nome’s boozing history was born with the town after gold was discovered in 1898, bringing scores of hard-drinking fortune seekers. The gunslinger Wyatt Earp ran the most ornate of 50 saloons ...

In 1900, the favored destination was Nome, rumored to have beaches made of gold. The gold fever was a craze, a social disease, and Fitz caught it bad. In her defense, she had some slight ...