President-elect Donald Trump’s interest in buying Greenland mirrors the U.S. acquisition of Alaska in 1867 for $7.2 million.

It's been years since I thought about Alaska. Recently, I pondered our time in the Last Frontier, courtesy of the Army.

In my part of Alaska, not far from Anchorage, winter solstice is always a dark day, but not because of the lack of light.

The tale of how and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the US 150 years ago is actually 2 tales and 2 intertwining ...

Although national parks get all the attention, state parks can be just as beautiful. Here are some of my favorites from New York to Hawaii.

David Longstreth also shared covers of a few of David Berman's songs in honor of what would've been his birthday.

Roughly 500 people attended a hearing at Bemidji State that may help decide the fate of the Sandpiper crude oil pipeline planned to cross northern Minnesota. At the hearing, put on by the Minnesota ...

In my part of Alaska, not far from Anchorage, winter solstice is always a dark day, but not because of the lack of light.

We begin feeling the loss of darkness only a few weeks after solstice. By February, the low-angle lighting that has graced our lives since November is gone, chased off by a sun th ...

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The murre die-off might have gone unexplained if it weren't for decades of observations from researchers and citizen ...