When the city of Anchorage was established, President Woodrow Wilson also set aside 22 acres of land for its cemetery. Now, it’s called The Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery.
The Fairchild 71 airplane is credited with opening up the remote areas in Alaska and Canada. Now, a rare Fairchild 71 is being restored to be displayed.
Historic Ketchikan, Inc. has purchased the Yates Memorial Hospital, allowing for the nonprofit organization to begin restoring the building to its original form.
The Nunalleq archeological project has produced more than 100,000 artifacts from pre-European contact Yup'ik culture, but it’s been a constant race against time as coastal erosion threatens to wipe out the valuables.
Drummers have fast hands, but they all don't have world record fast hands. An Anchorage drummer is sure he's got a record-setting groove and he's ready to prove it.
This Week in Alaska History, we talk about a milestone for North Slope crude oil, the last train leaving Kennecott in 1938, and a remarkable feat for Col. Norman Vaughn.
Flooding and storm surges from ex-Typhoon Halong’s landfall earlier this month exposed over 60 feet of beach in the village of Quinhagak, revealing thousands of Indigenous artifacts, archaeologists say.
This week in Alaska history, we dive into a plane landing on a busy Anchorage street, a gunshot hole in the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline that spilled thousands of gallons of oil, and a fireball in an Anchorage middle school!
Over this next year, Alaska’s News Source is joining Gray Media nationally, as well as all local Gray stations, honoring the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, which was adopted July 4, 1776. One key figure in shaping Alaska was Elizabeth Peratrovich.
Last year's king and silver salmon runs at Anchorage's Ship Creek were almost non-existent. The sport fisheries had to be canceled, but as the time comes for the first salmon to return to Ship Creek this year, there is hope and anticipation for what the 2025 run will look like.
On a small island in the Aleutians, some place names from World War II are reminders of the hate and racism of that time. An Anchorage historian has been working to correct that.
A clock hangs on the wall of an Anchorage bakery. It stopped telling time at 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964. It fell off the wall of an Anchorage restaurant during Alaska's Good Friday earthquake.
The Great Alaska Earthquake struck Alaska 62 years ago on March 27, 1964. Valdez resident Wade Huls was just 11 on that day, but remembers the events vividly.
The burled arch of the Iditarod finish line has to be rebuilt because the previous one was claimed by wood rot. Veteran musher Ramey Smyth was tasked with the job.
