The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

Five minutes after squeezing into the Cessna 206 with three other giddy passengers, the blue-and-white six-seater zipped across the gravel runway and rose into an overcast sky, veering west for the ...

Travelling in Alaska — the US’s final frontier — can feel like jumping through a wormhole. Time here is marked not by the ...

Housing, infrastructure, and services swell as residents flow to the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska’s growth locus for ...

With a country this big, it’s no surprise you can find many beautiful mountains in the United States. Some of the most ...

To see a breaching whale, a soaring bald eagle, bears catching salmon, or a bison up close are unforgettable, awe-inspiring ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In just a few days, the Great Highway on the west side of San Francisco is scheduled to be closed to car traffic. It comes after voters decided to turn the area into a park with ...

One of the key reasons to cruise Alaska is to visit the island-studded Inside Passage which, put simply, can’t be reached by ...

The incident led to angry protesters blocking the Ghazipur National Highway, demanding the immediate arrest of those responsible. According to the Delhi Police, they received a Medico-Legal Case (MLC) ...

It was on the South Side of Sunrise Highway as smoke crept perilously toward that airport -- ironically air national guardsmen who saw it were at the ready and were available to start fighting the ...