NOME, Alaska — Along the remote western edge of Alaska, just before it hits the narrow strait dividing America from the Russian Far East, Rolland Trowbridge is holding a contraption he designed ...

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Alaska State Troopers received reports at about 4 p.m. local time Thursday that a Bering Air Caravan heading from Unalakleet to Nome carrying nine passengers and a pilot was overdue, according to ...

Investigators say the surviving passenger told them the plane banked left about 100 feet above the ground before it went down ...

Alaska Department of Public Safety, in a news release 2:30 p.m. local time Saturday, said all the bodies have been recovered and taken to Nome where they were identified by Alaska State Troopers.

Authorities are conducting a search for a Bering Air plane—which was flying to the coastal city of Nome, Alaska, with 10 people on board—after it was reported missing Thursday. FILE PHOTO ...

The Bering Air aircraft was reported missing on its way from Unalakleet to Nome, remote communities south of the Arctic Circle.

A photo of a Bering Air Cessna 208B Grand Caravan in Nome, Alaska, the same type of plane that disappeared. (Quintin Soloviev via WikiCommons) ...

At the start of 1925, the small isolated city of Nome, Alaska, and the surrounding communities were hit by a diphtheria outbreak. Located on the western coast of Alaska, Nome was not only hundreds ...