ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut ...

By the summer of 1899, there were rumours about another gold rush in Nome, Alaska. Within a week, half of Dawson emptied. The Klondike Gold Rush had run its course.

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The gold rush in Alaska isn't confined to the state's precious ground ... include an 80-foot barge run by the most successful gold dredger in Nome, Alaska, and a modified skiff that seats only two ...

It's a Gold Rush town just south of the Arctic Circle. Nome-based Bering Air serves 32 villages in western Alaska and also has hubs in Kotzebue and Unalakleet. Most of the villages get scheduled ...

The tribes, in their lawsuit filed Thursday in Alaska federal court, target the Corps’ March decision to grant a Clean Water Act permit to IPOP LLC, a Nevada-based company proposing to mine for gold ...

Alaska became a destination for gold prospectors after the mid 1800s, and by the 1890s the gold rush had truly taken hold. Qasa Alom visits Juneau, Alaska, where he searches for gold with a local ...

Instead, this lowly shoe, on loan to the museum from the National Park Service, is part of a new exhibition commemorating the centennial of the Klondike/Alaska gold rush. "As Precious as Gold ...