It connected Seward, a Pacific Ocean port city on the south-central coast, to Fairbanks, 470 miles (756 kilometers) away in interior Alaska.The construction project lasted from 1914 to 1923.

Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago to mark the completion of the Alaska Railroad ANCHORAGE, Alaska ...

Anchorage police have identified the people killed in a Monday crash on the Seward Highway near Portage ... that slickened roads across Southcentral Alaska. In Anchorage, police received reports ...

Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through ...

Two people died and three were injured in a head-on collision on the Seward Highway near Portage on Monday afternoon, authorities said. The collision involved a pickup and an SUV in the area of ...

A statue of William Henry Seward stands in front of the Alaska State Capitol (James Brooks / ADN archives) Jan. 3 was an anniversary of note, the day Alaska officially became a state and knocked ...

When U.S. Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, he negotiated a price of $7.2 million—about $153 million today—for almost 600,000 square miles of territory ...

The Seward Highway has reopened Monday morning after a crash involving a semi truck near Portage, as warming weather is expected to bring slick roads and high winds to much of Southcentral Alaska.

Alaska Department of Transportation & Public ... and partially collapsed the Rabbit Creek Pedestrian Bridge along the Seward Highway. AP The department fielded nearly 500 total calls, nearly ...

No one was hurt when the structure fell onto the Seward Highway on the south side of Alaska's biggest city, according to the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. A highway ...