The residents of Valdez, Alaska, aren’t going anywhere, unless they have a helicopter. All road access into the town is blocked due to a series of avalanches that occurred on Thursday.

The renamed sites include a mile-long stream formerly known as “ Nazi Creek ” and a nearby summit previously bearing a ...

More than three years after Hilcorp bought BP’s Alaska assets, Valdez wants assurances that Hilcorp has the money to safely maintain its operations — and clean up a potential oil spill.

At the end of the 19th century, an estimated 100,000 people joined the Klondike Gold Rush, seeking their fortunes in the interior of Alaska and Canada’s Yukon territory. Many gold seekers who ...

Chugach Alaska Corporation and Koniag are the two major Native corporation land holders within the spill-impacted region and represent numerous shareholder communities impacted by the Exxon Valdez ...

Valdez became the latest Alaska community to pass a mask mandate. The city council voted 5-2 in favor of the mandate at a meeting on Tuesday. It applies to all indoor areas where social distancing ...

About 1,300 miles of Alaska shoreline was affected by the spill, including 200 miles that were heavily contaminated, according to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council.

“We call Valdez Alaskans’ favorite adventure,” Harris says. “People come from the Lower 48 to Alaska for excitement and adventure, but the people of Alaska come to Valdez for that.

The small city of Valdez, which endured the devastating 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, is suing Hilcorp Energy Company in the Alaska Supreme Court.

Have Alaska's fish been getting smaller over the last few years? Recent trends point to yes, but this may not be as bad as one might think.

Joseph Hazelwood, the captain of the Exxon Valdez, during his trial in Anchorage Superior Court in 1990. He was acquitted of operating a vessel while intoxicated but convicted of negligently ...

A collection of photographs of the people and landscapes along a rough trail into Alaska's interior, taken nearly 125 years ago.