More festivities will take place throughout the rest of the day at the Delaney Park Strip, including music, crafts and ...

A woman from Fairbanks, Alaska, has taken the lead in the annual Valdez Halibut Derby with a catch last Friday that tipped ...

SEATTLE, Washington, Jan. 27. -- The steamer Cottage City, from Alaska, brings news that a number of Copper River prospectors perished in Valdez Glacier.

A trip into Alaska’s Copper River Valley in 1902. Miles Brothers / U.S. National Archives The view of Valdez from the Santa Ana.

Ah, the open road: The lone highway into Valdez, Alaska, is finally clear, but residents say being cut off by land wasn’t that big of a deal. Six miles of the Richardson Highway in and out of ...

The Alaska Department of Transportation says highway access to Valdez has been cut off indefinitely by avalanches, including one that dammed a river and created a lake up to a half-mile long ...

A trip into Alaska’s Copper River Valley in 1902. The view of Valdez from the Santa Ana. At the time, the town was only a few years old.

Alaska State Troopers say the person was reported missing around 10:45 p.m. Saturday after his raft tipped and he was thrown into the water at a ... Rafter dies paddling Valdez-area river ...

At River Road High School, a place known for its tight-knit community, resilient spirit, and where dreams are often as big as Texas itself, senior Radai Valdez has quietly built one of the most ...

A trip into Alaska’s Copper River Valley in 1902. ... Many gold seekers who chose the arduous path inland from Alaska’s port of Valdez also discovered rich copper deposits along the way.

Alaska State Troopers identified the rafter who died as 54-year-old Christopher Roby of Utqiagvik. Original story: A rafter died Saturday after going into the Tsina River east of Valdez.