The Department of Transportation has now cleared the road through the slide debris that covered the road on Zimovia Highway. (Photo courtesy of Alaska Department of Transportation) Power was restored ...

Cruise ships anchored outside Wrangell’s downtown in May 2022. (Sage Smiley / KSTK) After hours-long tours up the Stikine River or down to the Anan Wildlife Observatory, visitors to Wrangell in ...

A landslide struck Wrangell Island last November in southeast Alaska, killing six people, including a family of five. Wrangell's community is slowly returning to normalcy with the upcoming tourism and ...

If something seems impossibly remote, you call it Siberia. And if Siberians want to make the analogy, they could call it Wrangel Island. About 90 miles off the coast of northeastern Siberia, the ...

How did the woolly mammoth, an ambassador of the Ice Age, end up confined to modern-day Wrangel Island? And what ultimately caused their extinction? New evidence suggests it wasn’t poor genetics as ...

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is seeking bids for rockfall-prevention work along a highway in Wrangell that was the site of a catastrophic and deadly landslide in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ten thousand years ago, as the Pleistocene ended and the Holocene began, sea levels rose and trapped a small group of woolly ...

Three people are dead and three others, including two under 18 years old, are believed missing after a landslide swept down a slope Monday night in Alaska, officials said. A woman was rescued Tuesday ...

WRANGELL, AlaskaWRANGELL, Alaska — Jamie Roberts and her husband felt lucky when they found an A-frame cabin on forest-draped Wrangell Island in southeast Alaska, where they could settle on a few ...

WRANGELL — Zimovia Highway snakes along the west coast of Wrangell Island for 14 miles, with steep mountain slopes on one side and the ocean on the other. Many of the houses far out the road sit on ...