ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Crews began transferring 1.3 million gallons of fuel Monday from a Russian fuel tanker to the iced-in western Alaska city of Nome. The offloading began near sundown, said Stacey ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author and cultural anthropologist Michael Engelhard is shining a new light on one of Alaska’s most storied towns in his ...

Two containers packed with batteries rest near a new concrete pad at Nome Joint Utility System's powerplant. (Ben Townsend/KNOM) Utility officials in Nome are hoping a new battery system recently ...

The story goes that a cartographer, mapping the central peninsula that jutted into Bering Strait from the Russian territory of Alaska, had no identification for the cape on its southern side. He ...

The cruise ship with about 1,000 passengers anchored off Nome, too big to squeeze into into the tundra city's tiny port. Its well-heeled tourists had to shimmy into small boats for another ride to ...

Nome seems both unlikely and inevitable. Perched on the Seward Peninsula, it’s the westernmost sizable city in Alaska and the United States. Spawned by a gold rush, it somehow survived the frenzy ...

In a tiny gold mining town on the edge of Alaska, the Trump administration is poised to begin building America's first Arctic deepwater port, with significant implications for military security and ...

The Alaska Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of a Nome police officer accused of killing a 19-year-old while he was on duty in 2003. Matthew Owens, in the second trial of the case, was found ...

Law enforcement officials say they have located the driver and vehicle they were looking for in connection with the disappearance of a 33-year-old Nome woman. On Sunday, Nome police had released ...

The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is again seeking bids for the opening phase of the Port of Nome Modification Project, months after the initial procurement effort was canceled due to ...