Each spring, local hunters sit on the edge of the ice and wait for whales—a custom that’s at least 1,000 years old.

But what to do up there? Chiming in with a sweet activity list is Fodor’s Travel Guide and its “10 Can’t-Miss Shore Excursions to Choose on Your Alaskan Cruise .” From salmon fishing to off-roading to ...

You don't hear the impending arrival of a whale at first; you feel it. There's a shift in the atmosphere, a sudden silence, and then a blow with a breath so heavy that it cuts through the air with ...

Update, Wednesday: Volunteers with Vulcan Towing in Anchorage helped Museum of Alaska director James Grogan extract almost all of the remaining bones from a fin whale on Cook Inlet mudflats on Tuesday ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An endangered fin whale that washed up near a coastal trail in Alaska’s largest city has attracted curious onlookers while biologists seek answers as to what caused the animal ...

When researchers learned the fossils were merely 1,900 to 2,700 years old—which would be the youngest woolly mammoth fossils ...