Forty thousand years after they were locked into Arctic ground, ancient microbes from Alaskan permafrost have stirred back to life in modern laboratories, turning a frozen time capsule into a live ...

Moving off the grid in Alaska is a romanticized dream for many. The idea of living in an untouched wilderness, free from modern constraints, resonates with those yearning for simplicity and ...

Evacuees Ally Shangin, her partner Garrett Kashatok and their four daughters – Katelynn, 9, Allyssa, 3, Lola, 2, and Shameka, 11 months – in their room at the Wingate hotel on Nov. 14, 2025. Sitting ...

Kikkan Randall stops to talk to the Junior Nordic team while skiing in Kincaid Park on Jan. 14, 2026. Randall is an Olympic gold medalist and executive director of the Nordic Skiing Association of ...

Instead of floating a big-name river in Alaska, we decided to fish and float a more obscure river. It was packed with ...

Few may be as comfortable off the grid as Ammi Midstokke, who pens The Spokesman-Review Outdoors column of the same name. Even fewer find comfort on the extreme far reaches to the extent of Sue Aikens ...

In 1913, three Nome legislators departed by dog sled in the second week of January to reach the inaugural session, which ...