It’s like nature is trying to take these places back. Alaska’s tough. They say Alaska’s always trying to kill you. It’s like the landscape is insisting that it gets its land back.

Alaska draws millions with its classic cruise ports and headline sights, but honestly, it’s the out-of-the-way corners and wild stretches that show the state at its most real. If you’re ...

It has now happened twice in her life. In 1962, outside a small village in western Alaska, she said, her 13-year-old brother, William, took a skiff onto the Kvichak River and was never seen again.

Not everyone in Hyder ended up there because of love. Bill McCloskey, 90 years old, skinny and sharp-witted, was on his way to Anchorage when he stopped in Hyder to rest. That was in 1985, and he ...

I was apprehensive about spending three days in 225 square feet with an 11-year-old and no running water, but David and Jenna had lived in our cabin, the one-room Sun Lodge, for seven years before ...