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 ...

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 ...

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

A 48-year-old woman from the Fairbanks area has died in a rafting accident on the Lowe River near Valdez. City of Valdez spokeswoman Allie Ferko identified the deceased as Theresa L. Williams in ...

Valdez's main road was covered in snow and flood waters from a nearby river Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

FAIRBANKS — The Ed S. Orr Stage Co., also called the Fairbanks-Valdez Stage Co., was the most successful of several stage lines that operated along the old Valdez-Fairbanks Trail between 1904 ...