The Nenana Ridge Complex Fire has caused closures on Parks Highway between mileposts 308 and 341. Heavy smoke reduces visibility. Travel is not advised; delays and closures continue.

Two new art installations are now on the Ship Creek Trail bridge in Anchorage, part of the city’s 1% for Art program. Next ...

The spike is inscribed, "Presented to Col. Frederick Mears by the city of Anchorage in commemoration of the building of the Alaska Railroad 1915-1923." Anchorage Museum On July 15, 1923, President ...

The Anchorage Museum and the city of Nenana, with financial help from private donors and the Alaska Railroad, won the Christie’s auction for the spike in New York with a bid of $201,600, more ...

Anchorage Museum Helps Bring Historic Railroad Spike Home to Alaska The artifact, known as the Golden Spike, was held in a private collection outside the state for nearly a century.

The railroad was built to open what was then the Alaska territory to development. It connected Seward, a Pacific Ocean port city on the south-central coast, to Fairbanks, 470 miles (756 kilometers ...

The Anchorage Museum and the city of Nenana, with financial help from private donors and the Alaska Railroad, won the Christie's auction for the spike in New York with a bid of $201,600, more than ...

In this image, July 15, 1923, provided by the Alaska State Library Historical Collections, President Warren G. Harding drives the final golden spike at the new Alaska Railroad bridge in Nenana ...