Alaska officially became a state 92 years after the transaction, in January 1959, making it the 49th state. Hawaii became the ...

Dustin Hurt ends season after tough weather, safety risks, and low gold recovery despite finding a single $10,000 nugget ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — 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 unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from ...

The new gold rush is nothing like the old one, but it has reinvigorated Nome. The port, in particular, is booming. “There were six dredges 10 years ago,” Michels said.

While the Klondike Gold Rush peaked between 1897 and 1899, gold has been mined continuously ever since. Starting in the early 1900s, though, shovels and sluice boxes gave way to mechanization in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — 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 unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from ...