Emma Pokon, Alaska's DEC Commissioner, has been appointed as Region 10 Administrator at the EPA. She will oversee federal ...

Among the Trump Administration's flurry of executive orders was a mandate to maximize — not balance — resource extraction on Alaska's public lands. Less publicized provisions of the order instruct the ...

In 1978 he published his first book, “Doug Lindstrand’s Alaskan Sketchbook,” which went on to have 13 editions.

Google Maps will change the name of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America when the US government officially makes the change ...

Google Maps has a history of changing place names and world borders for different users in different locations, especially ...

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the ...

The federal government, including the military, is changing the name on maps to "Gulf of America." Even Google suggested it ...

Google is complying with President Donald Trump’s executive action that renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Trump signed an executive order the day of his inauguration, saying the gulf was “ours” and that it should be renamed ...

Alaskans say they will never stop calling the peak Denali despite President Trump’s executive order that the name revert to ...

On Jan. 23, 1971, a weather observer at Prospect Creek Camp measured a temperature of minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...