Why Does Alaska Have Interstate Highways? Looking at a highway map of Alaska, things pretty immediately look out of place.

Joe Adrian animatedly shares recollections of his father's military service -- a unique period that included participation in the construction of the Alaska Highway and the creation of maps for Gen.

In the middle of March 1942, approximately one month after President Franklin Rosevelt authorized the highway, the Army Corps of Engineers began arriving in Alaska. More than 10,000 soldiers came with ...

Repairs to a section of the Alaska Highway in British Columbia near the Yukon border are expected to take more than a month before the road can reopen fully again, according to Canadian authorities.

About 140 active wildfires, many in the Eastern Interior, are burning up acreage and sending smoke across the region — with one burning across and closing the Elliott Highway north of Fairbanks. Among ...