The "decision to return to the McKinley name" for Alaska's mountain is a "slap in the face of recent efforts to acknowledge ...

Former reality TV star Jessie Holmes won the 53rd Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday, March 14, ending a run that was as ...

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 ...

Jessie Holmes was the first musher to depart from the White Mountain checkpoint Thursday, leaving at 4:54 p.m., and was on ...

ALASKA (WBAY) - An update from the Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska. A Wisconsin resident, Quince Mountain, of Mountain, has been withdrawn from the race after nine days. Ten other participants have ...

Mount Spurr, located about 75 miles West of Anchorage, has been acting up in recent weeks, prompting officials at the U.S.

Holmes had a three-hour lead over his closest competitor, Matt Hall, who said he had stopped trying to catch up.

“It is also possible that an eruption could occur with little or no additional warning,” the Alaska Volcano Observatory ...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory on Wednesday said Mount Spurr is at risk of erupting within the next few weeks or months, potentially impacting residents 78 miles away in the city of Anchorage.

An enormous avalanche killed three men on Alaska’s Chugach Range early this month, a popular ski region for heli-skiiers. A Jackson guide was among ...

Increased volcanic activity on Alaska's Mount Spurr volcano could lead to an eruption in the coming weeks or months, scientists say.

Mount Spurr is one of 53 volcanoes in Alaska that have been active within the last 250 years and is nearly 80 miles northwest ...