This story was co-published with Alaska Public Media. A dusting of snow clings to the highway as Barbara Schuhmann drives around a hairpin curve near her home in Fairbanks, Alaska. She slows for a ...

Set your cruise control to nautical miles. Take your car on the Alaska Marine Highway—where your vehicle gets a front-row ...

It may not look like it on most maps you're familiar with, but Alaska is quite far away from the rest of the States it is United with. Alaska is so far away, in fact, that the United States and Canada ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Gerstle River Bridge near Delta Junction is seen on July 26, 2023. (Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities ...

FORT NELSON, BC, May 13, 2026 /CNW/ - The Government of Canada is taking action to rehabilitate the Alaska Highway and protect it from climate-related damage. Today, the Honourable Joël Lightbound, ...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy and the Premier of the Yukon Ranj Pillai, pose for a photo in the Cabinet office during a visit to Whitehorse on Thursday, February 8, 2024. (Photo by Justin Kennedy/Government of ...

In much of coastal Alaska, where there often aren’t roads between communities, the ferry is the highway. The Alaska Marine Highway System is a state-run network that locals use to move between ...

Ferries that operate as the Alaska Marine Highway System are as essential to coastal communities as roads are to the cities and villages along the road system. If the Alaska Highway or the Glenn ...

In the middle of March 1942, approximately one month after President Franklin Rosevelt authorized the highway, the Army Corps of Engineers began arriving in Alaska. More than 10,000 soldiers came with ...