Scientists spotted 35,000 walruses crowded on a beach near the village of Point Lay in northwest Alaska as Arctic sea ice reached its minimum extend in 2014. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. (Photo: AP) ...
A massive fin whale washed ashore in Anchorage, Alaska over the weekend, prompting crowds of onlookers and biologists to study the carcass of the 47ft female. Staff from the National Oceanic and ...
The Spencer Expedition mapped the copper district of Alaska, and the first exploratory oil well was drilled in Cook Inlet. Twenty thousand gold prospectors arrived at Nome Beach. Alaska's capital ...