Alaska’s harsh winter weather — an annual average of 40 feet of snow and winds exceeding 140 mph — makes it difficult to keep roads clear. But when the location is Valdez, home to a vital port and a ...

Valdez is an end-of-the-road town teeming with adventure and beauty, where visitors can fill their cups with great food, world-class fishing, Alaska history and locally brewed beer. Located at the ...

Jun. 22—The state Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in a case that could force oil company Hilcorp to release financial information that it was allowed to keep secret when it acquired ...

Since the Valdez child care center Stepping Stones closed two years ago, working parents like Brianne Skilbred have had to scramble. " current child care provider that they have is their fifth in two ...

The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the city of Valdez in a lawsuit that challenged the bounds of municipal authority within the state. In a unanimous decision issued Friday, the court ...

VALDEZ, Alaska -- We're standing in a field of rocks in a dense fog, surrounded by icebergs stranded at low tide. This is the terminal moraine of Alaska's Columbia Glacier -- the rocky debris that was ...

When Alaska became a state in 1959, the newfound government was allowed to select 100 million acres of land to help build an economy from scratch. Tom Marshall, a state employee with a background in ...

You could make a case that Valdez, Alaska, is the most beautiful town in America. Its on the ocean, first of all, even if the water is not warm. It is also surrounded by the magnificent Chugach ...

Arriving at the end-of-the-road town of Valdez, visitors will be delighted to learn their Alaska adventure is just beginning. Located at the head of a fjord in eastern Prince William Sound, getting ...

Officials from the city of Valdez, Alaska have admitted last week to paying $26,623.97 to hackers after the city's IT network was crippled by a ransomware infection in July. "Valdez Police Department ...

ANCHORAGE — It was just after midnight on March 24, 1989, when an Exxon Shipping Co. tanker ran aground outside the town of Valdez, Alaska, spewing millions of gallons of thick, toxic crude oil into ...

When the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in March 1989 in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, it released a record-setting 11 million gallons of crude oil into a uniquely vulnerable environment, ...