The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and ...

The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad in 1923 will for the first time be on permanent display in ...

Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago ...

A major Canadian mining prospect upstream from Southeast Alaska is drawing legal challenges ... Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell project, a proposed gold and copper mine at the foot of a glacier just ...

(Seabridge Gold) A major Canadian mining prospect upstream from Southeast Alaska is drawing legal challenges from both sides of the border, as tribal groups fear the project could pollute their ...

The Anchorage Museum, with financial backing from the Alaska Railroad, will bid on the 14-karat solid gold spike when it ... Russia.It's in perfect condition, and shows little evidence of where ...

While this may sound like something out of a movie, history shows that America ... almost like gold. Russian traders began setting up small colonies along Alaska’s coasts. However, in doing ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial act that marked the launch of a ...