Valdez is an end-of-the-road town teeming with adventure and beauty, where visitors can fill their cups with great food, world-class fishing, Alaska history and locally brewed beer. Located at the ...

Fishing in the morning. Hiking in the afternoon. Dinner out, drinks at the nearest brewpub, an evening of live theater… and maybe some sea lions thrown in for good measure? That’s just a normal summer ...

WHITTIER, Alaska (AP) — The hunt for new species that are not indigenous to the waters near Valdez, Alaska, turned up empty, which scientists said “was great news.” Scientists with the Smithsonian ...

VALDEZ, Alaska - A boat has sunk in the small boat harbor in Valdez. The Coast Guard says in a release that the 47-foot Janice Ruth II was listing starboard and 75 percent submerged when its ...

You could make a case that Valdez, Alaska, is the most beautiful town in America. Its on the ocean, first of all, even if the water is not warm. It is also surrounded by the magnificent Chugach ...

The Exxon Valdez oil spill is not just an awful memory. Oil from one of the most devastating environmental disasters in U.S. history still clings to boulder-strewn beaches in the Gulf of Alaska—and ...

Crews responding to an oil spill at the end of the trans-Alaska pipeline have recovered more than 33,000 gallons of a mix of oil and water from Port Valdez, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Department of ...

The Coast Guard rescued 18 people from a passenger vessel that ran aground near the Columbia Glacier Thursday. At 4:35 p.m., Coast Guard Sector Anchorage command center watchstanders overheard the ...