Gold was discovered in the Fairbanks area in 1902 when Italian immigrant Felix Pedro struck it rich. He put Fairbanks on the map and thousands of men rushed to interior Alaska in search of the ...

Three Alaska Native tribes have filed a lawsuit to overturn the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit granted to a company seeking to dredge for gold in a sensitive wetland area near Nome. The tribes, ...

Alaska regulators have rejected a permit application for a controversial gold-dredging project near Nome after determining that the plan is riddled with deficiencies and would put the public interest ...

(CN) — Three Alaska Native tribes are challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ recent approval of a gold mining project that would bring industrial suction dredging — a mining technique used to ...

"Jackass machinery" at Nome : the early years -- Small dredges and small profits : the pre-World War I boom -- "It takes a little more than 'hot air' to thaw some of that ground" : the Hammon ...

Subsistence cabins are seen on Sept. 30, 2020, on the horizon on the other side of Safety Sound near Nome. The sound is an important area for gathering wild foods important to Native traditions. A ...