Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ...

Solstice' comes from the word solstitium ... All in all, a grand day out." In Fairbanks, Alaska, residents usually mark the longest day of the year with the Midnight Sun Game.

This year, Alaska is celebrating not one, but two 100-year anniversaries: Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve and the Serum ...

The leading builder of solar farms along Alaska's Railbelt has pulled the plug on a large project in Nikiski, saying it does not pencil out for its investor amid persistently high costs and ...

Alaska's famous "midnight sun" brings long, lingering daylight and short nights (solstice is celebrated on June 21 each year), and a full array of blooming gardens and flower beds almost ...