An official state of the union for 66 years, Alaska is known for its glaciers, permafrost and national parks. Home to North ...

Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

Tuesday and Wednesday brought North Platte's highest snowfall and lowest overnight temperature so far in the 2024-25 winter, a season that didn't witness measurable snowfall until Jan. 4.

A scruffy New Orleans rescue dog famed for evading a monthslong effort to recapture him using nets and tranquilizer rifles ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Canada should be the 51st U.S. state, effectively erasing the massive border the ...

What are we learning about the past? Here are three of our most recent eye-catching archaeology stories.

An eruption of Mount Churchill today similar to previous major plumes would bring much of the Northern Hemisphere to a ...

Mount Churchill stands in a white corner of the Alaska map, deceptive in its cold, windblown silence. At least twice in the last few thousand years, the peak’s ice-covered caldera has spewed ash that ...

Trump’s new 10% tariff on China, Alaska’s biggest international trading partner, is accompanied by a 25% on imports from Canada, Alaska’s fourth-largest trading partner, and a 25% tariff on ...

They became social media celebrities during their snowmobile trip from Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to Fairbanks, Alaska, a trek of some 5,000 miles, in March and April 2023. Now, the "3 Old Guys" — Rob ...

In its 2024 Fall Economic Statement, the Government of Canada reiterated its commitment to building a multimodal bridge in the eastern part of the National Capital Region to optimize public transit ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels have captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains largely ...