The 2025 Ice Alaska Festival, home to the World Ice Art Championships, is in full swing at the Tanana Valley Fairgrounds, drawing international ice sculptors and local spectators alike.

In Alaska in winter and spring, everybody talks about the weather and nearly everybody does something about it. Midstream in the ice-locked Tanana River at Nenana, a Government railroad junction ...

Ice sculpting dates back as far as the 17th century, when Northeastern China’s Heilongjiang people began carving lanterns out of ice and the Inuit communities in Alaska used ice forms to create ...

Chris Foltz works on an ice sculpture with a chainsaw as team member Dean Murray looks on in Fairbanks, Alaska, in this photo from Feb. 20, 2023. The sculpture, called "The Wild Child," was the ...