The road to Alaska’s North Slope oil fields and the U.S. Arctic Ocean reopened Wednesday after snowmelt floods washed part of the road away, causing a five-day shutdown. The 415-mile Dalton Highway ...

A massive flood has wreaked havoc on the Dalton Highway, Alaska’s critical lifeline to the Prudhoe Bay oil fields, leaving a gaping 80-foot-wide hole in the road. The disaster struck on Saturday, ...

Flooding cut off part of the Dalton Highway for much of Tuesday after heavy rain hammered the northern Interior early this week. The highway connects the North Slope to the rest of the state. By ...

Alaska’s governor has declared a state of emergency over flooding that washed out a section of the Dalton Highway, the sole overland link between Prudhoe Bay and the state’s largest cities. The ...

A massive landslide of frozen debris and ice is inching its way toward the Dalton Highway, outside of the Gates of the Arctic National Park Preserve, and nobody is quite sure how to stop it. If left ...

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This image from the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, shows a washed out section of the Dalton Highway in June 2025. (Alaska DOT&PF photo) This image from the Alaska ...