The Alaska Marine Highway System has put the Columbia back to work through Dec. 17 to cover for the Kennicott, which has been delayed leaving a Puget Sound shipyard.

As we saw in part one of this series, the United States and Canada agreed to build a military highway from Fairbanks, Alaska to Dawson Creek, British Columbia in March 1942 in response to potential ...

In the middle of March 1942, approximately one month after President Franklin Rosevelt authorized the highway, the Army Corps of Engineers began arriving in Alaska. More than 10,000 soldiers came with ...

KETCHIKAN — Minutes after the M/V Kennicott pulled away from its terminal in the Tongass Narrows on a late February journey up the Inside Passage, emergency lights flickered on, barely visible under a ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) - As the State of Alaska and the Yukon Territory work together, a smoother and more frequented ...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy and the Premier of the Yukon Ranj Pillai, pose for a photo in the Cabinet office during a visit to Whitehorse on Thursday, February 8, 2024. (Photo by Justin Kennedy/Government of ...

When the pioneer road that was the foundation for the Alaska Highway was completed in the fall of 1942, it was heralded as a great achievement for both Canada and America. The men who had worked on ...

Repairs to a section of the Alaska Highway in British Columbia near the Yukon border are expected to take more than a month before the road can reopen fully again, according to Canadian authorities.

Editor’s Note: Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, TTU Libraries is the editor of Caprock Chronicles. He can be reached [email protected]. This week’s Caprock Chronicles is written by John McCullough ...

Editor’s Note: The Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, TTU Libraries. This week’s Caprock Chronicles is written by John McCullough, author and aviation historian of ...