Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promising to elevate Indian issues should he be confirmed to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through ...

Fatal crashes like the one that happened near Washington on Wednesday are increasingly rare because of modern aviation safety ...

Asharq Al Awsat The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a contagious ...

While some changes in mushing come from development in the sport, others have been forced by a changing climate. One part of ...

Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire from archived editions in 1985, 1995 and 2005. They include names, AP style ...

Cassidy, a physician, said that he agrees with Kennedy that vaccines should be safe and effective, but they are far apart in ...

Shakespeare once asked, “What’s in a name? Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?” And in the case of Denali, would a ...

May 11, 1996: A Valujet Airlines flight crashed into the Everglades about 10 minutes after takeoff from the Miami ...

Everyone aboard a plane that collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., are feared dead, which would make it the ...

Fatal crashes of commercial aircraft in the U.S. have become a rarity. The deadliest recent crash was in 2009 near Buffalo, N ...

Here are some of the deadliest commercial plane crashes in the U.S. since the Air Florida disaster according to reports from the National Transportation Safety Board: ...