A year ago, Alaska’s miners were selling gold at what seemed like a great price: around $2,200 per ounce. Today, that number sounds like a steal. After a historic surge in value, gold is now ...

The tribes say that the gold mining operation will harm fish, migratory birds and other wildlife, ... a Nevada-based company proposing to mine for gold in Safety Sound, about 30 miles east of Nome, ...

Alaska weekend highlights include Juneau’s flood prep and Gold Rush Days, a 10-day road closure in Nome, and Fairbanks’ 21st ...

A western Alaska tribal consortium has appealed a key permit for a proposed gold dredging project in waters near Nome. Kawerak, a nonprofit that serves some 20 Iñupiaq and Yup’ik tribes in the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — 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 year ago, Alaska’s miners were selling gold at what seemed like a great price: around $2,200 per ounce. Today, that number sounds like a steal.