With a country this big, it’s no surprise you can find many beautiful mountains in the United States. Some of the most ...

Scientists warn that the Alaska volcano Mount Spurr is likely to erupt soon, showering ash on Anchorage and potentially ...

The "decision to return to the McKinley name" for Alaska's mountain is a "slap in the face of recent efforts to acknowledge ...

Former reality TV star Jessie Holmes won the 53rd Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday, March 14, ending a run that was as ...

I n June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North America’s highest peak), six women ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

ALASKA (WBAY) - An update from the Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska. A Wisconsin resident, Quince Mountain, of Mountain, has been withdrawn from the race after nine days. Ten other participants have ...

Holmes had a three-hour lead over his closest competitor, Matt Hall, who said he had stopped trying to catch up.

“It is also possible that an eruption could occur with little or no additional warning,” the Alaska Volcano Observatory ...

Increasing volcanic activity at the over 11,000-foot-tall, snowcapped volcano in Alaska is likely a sign of its impending first eruption since 1992, experts say. Mount Spurr, located about 75 miles ...

An enormous avalanche killed three men on Alaska’s Chugach Range early this month, a popular ski region for heli-skiiers. A Jackson guide was among ...