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 took their first steps in a historic feat. Led by Alas ...

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 A Wisconsin resident, Quince Mountain, of Mountain, has been withdrawn from the race after nine days.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 ...

Mount Spurr, located about 75 miles West of Anchorage, has been acting up in recent weeks, prompting officials at the U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

Increased volcanic activity on Alaska's Mount Spurr volcano could lead to an eruption in the coming weeks or months, scientists say.

Mount Spurr is one of 53 volcanoes in Alaska that have been active within the last 250 years and is nearly 80 miles northwest ...