Southeast Missourian12d
From the Morgue: Cape military family drives to Alaska
In 1950, the Pirano family embarked on a daring 4,500-mile drive from Cape Girardeau to Fairbanks, Alaska, enduring extreme ...
PBS13y
Men Who Built the Highway
1942, U.S. Army. Signal Corps. When President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the building of the Alaska Highway in February 1942, the problem of who would actually do the construction quickly arose.
PBS3y
Alaska Highway: Scouting the Route
The payoff? Beautiful landscapes, wildlife, and a feeling of freedom. Scout the Alaska Highway's route with two AMERICAN EXPERIENCE producers. Building the Alaska Highway producers Tracy Heather ...
Alaska Native News13d
The threat within an Alaska mountain
Mount Churchill stands in a white corner of the Alaska map, deceptive in its cold, windblown silence. At least twice in the last few thousand years, the peak’s ice-covered caldera has spewed ash that ...
Alaska Public Media1d
Alaska Marine Highway System continues to struggle with staffing, officials say
When it comes to engineers and deck officers, the ferry system's marine director said the situation is getting worse, not ...
Alaska Dispatch News6d
Alaska Marine Highway System ‘going the wrong direction’ on staffing, director says
A budget proposed by the administration of Gov. Mike Dunleavy would leave the Marine Highway Fund, which is capitalized ...