Microbes frozen in Alaska's permafrost for 40,000 years are stirring back to life as the ground thaws, revealing a hidden ...

Forty thousand years after they were locked into Arctic ground, ancient microbes from Alaskan permafrost have stirred back to life in modern laboratories, turning a frozen time capsule into a live ...

The watery depths near Prince of Wales Island recently revealed an Indigenous connection to Southeast Alaska even deeper than previously known. A team of scientists discovered what could potentially ...

Research conducted by a team co-led by Halffman and Potter shows that the people who lived at the hunting camp now known as the Upper Sun River site some 11,500 years ago had a more complex diet than ...

Lucian Painter carefully applied black paint to an eagle stencil on a bright orange shirt in the crowded gymnasium of Alaska Native Cultural Charter School in Anchorage on Wednesday night. He is 6 ...

In his recent book “Black History in the Last Frontier,” University of Alaska Anchorage history professor Ian Hartman sheds light on the contributions Black people have made in Alaska before and after ...

Cover art from the free downloadable book "Black History in the Last Frontier," published by the University of Alaska Anchorage and the National Park Service. (From NPS) Fairbanks is celebrating Dr.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) ” Native artifacts dating as far back as 10,000 years have been returned to the Southeast Alaska village of Hoonah. The items recovered from one of the earliest known ...

Like many Alaskans, I first arrived via the Alaska Marine Highway, in my case more than 34 years ago aboard a ferry from Bellingham. I’ve only traveled the Inside Passage twice and, tied to departure ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters Life!) - An unfinished Indian canoe, apparently abandoned 500 years ago, has been discovered in a remote section of an Alaska rain forest, according to officials. The canoe, ...

Sitting at a window seat on a recent flight from Seattle to Fairbanks, I looked down on Alaska from 35,000 feet. There was my home river, the Tanana, flowing gray and braided from near the Canada ...

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