Presidential Executive Order #148, in January 1899, had set aside 320 acres of land near Russian Orthodox Church property in the village of Kenai for the creation of an agricultural experiment station ...

Three decades after President Carter added 47 million acres of Alaska to the National Park System, managing those lands remains a complex and highly political effort. For countless millennia, the ...

10 p.m. Tuesdays on the Discovery Channel Episode: May 20, "Alaska Bites Back" Delirious, cold and isolated describe the state of the volunteers on the Discovery Channel's "The Alaska Experiment." ...

The weekend of Sept. 12th, I attended the annual Institute of the North Alaska Dialogue in Seward. This was the first dialogue I have taken part in and I thoroughly enjoyed the discourse and the high ...

For anyone who missed it, “Out of the Wild – The Alaska Experiment” ended last week. In the end, only four of the party of nine who started the trek stuck it out till the end. The four made it out of ...

As a newly minted Alaskan (less than two years in), I’ve slowly come to realize that Alaska’s uniqueness flows partially from the experimental nature of its land, of its politics, of its people. There ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — The Alaska Department of Transportation is testing a piece of equipment designed to crush ice on highways. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ( http ...

As Alaskans debate Gov. Mike Dunleavy's budget cuts, a different state occasionally enters the conversation to serve as a kind of cautionary tale: Kansas. In 2012, Kansas also had a newly elected ...

A locavore eats only food that comes from its immediate area, and on Baranof Island — provided you don't move on four legs, have wings or live underwater — it's a very difficult thing to be. But one ...

Firefighters are embarking on an ambitious experiment to stamp out blazes deep in the Alaskan wilderness as a way to avert carbon emissions in what experts say is a seismic shift in thinking in modern ...