A view of the Stikine River near Wrangell and Petersburg. (Courtesy Cindi Lagoudakis) A geologist who has studied Southeast Alaska’s rocks and minerals for decades is creating a new geologic map of ...

Navigating Alaska's backcountry became a bit easier last month — or at least, more digital. The Bureau of Land Management Alaska has started unveiling free digital maps that users can download to ...

(CN) — The White House Arctic initiative released the first 3-D topographic maps of Alaska, nearly a year after President Barack Obama's announcement of a public-private collaboration to map the ...

Most maps of Alaska show governmental boundaries and geographic features, but offer little insight into where people live or which places might be especially vulnerable to pandemic or in need of ...

One year before Alaska became part of America, 21-year old William Dall ascended the Yukon River on a sled, pulled by dogs. The man who left his name all over the state was in 1866 one of the first ...

Federal officials changed the names of two natural features in Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Thursday, replacing arbitrary and offensive World War II-era place names with ones that honor the native ...