Nome, Alaska - Nome, Alaska, pleases what Minnesota essayist Bill Holm calls the "prairie eye." The town rests at the edge of the Bering Sea like a cabin on a mammoth Midwestern lake. The ocean waters ...

Oct. 29—A $663 million plan to build the first U.S. deepwater port for the Arctic has hit a snag that could set it back by several months, frustrating Alaska's congressional delegation and officials ...

To build a home in Nome, Alaska, is to take an encyclopedia’s worth of knowledge about ideal construction conditions and heave that text directly into the Bering Sea. From erecting wooden structures ...