ESTER, Alaska—At a mining site here, Rod Blakestad cracked open a shiny rock with his pick. He found quartz, a sign that the rock may contain gold. But Blakestad, a veteran gold hunter, tossed the ...

The pork-barrel deal with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was enough to get her to vote for the motion to proceed to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) late last night, which passed by a count of 51-49 ...

Bridges collapsed, horses and men fell to their seeming doom. Cowboys and railroads, damsels and gold. This wasn’t the brutal reality of a Sam Peckinpah-directed Western or the chaotic, explosive ...

Nome, on the Bering coast of the Seward Peninsula, was once Alaska's largest city due to a Gold Rush and boasts the world's largest gold pan shown here. As the race for critical minerals heats up as ...