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, ...

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 stretch of the Dalton Highway near the Saginavirktok River was washed out by flood waters on Saturday, leading to an 80-foot-wide gap in the only road leading to Prudhoe Bay. As a result, the ...

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 hiker looks down on the Dalton Highway and the trans-Alaska pipeline from the top of Sukakpak Mountain in 2014. The Dalton Highway corridor is the in the Central Yukon Resource Management Plan area.

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 ...

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 ...