(Reuters) -At least three people have been killed, and three others are believed to be missing, in a landslide on the principal highway serving an island community in Southeast Alaska, state officials ...

The Department of Transportation has now cleared the road through the slide debris that covered the road on Zimovia Highway. (Photo courtesy of Alaska Department of Transportation) Power was restored ...

A landslide struck Wrangell Island last November in southeast Alaska, killing six people, including a family of five. Wrangell's community is slowly returning to normalcy with the upcoming tourism and ...

If something seems impossibly remote, you call it Siberia. And if Siberians want to make the analogy, they could call it Wrangel Island. About 90 miles off the coast of northeastern Siberia, the ...

Cruise ships anchored outside Wrangell’s downtown in May 2022. (Sage Smiley / KSTK) After hours-long tours up the Stikine River or down to the Anan Wildlife Observatory, visitors to Wrangell in ...

How did the woolly mammoth, an ambassador of the Ice Age, end up confined to modern-day Wrangel Island? And what ultimately caused their extinction? New evidence suggests it wasn’t poor genetics as ...

WRANGELL — Zimovia Highway snakes along the west coast of Wrangell Island for 14 miles, with steep mountain slopes on one side and the ocean on the other. Many of the houses far out the road sit on ...

Two years ago Russia sent three white men, three white women and 50 Eskimo families to bleak little Wrangel Island, disastrous site 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The people were called a ...