DELTA JUNCTION, Alaska -- After three quarters of a century, a community remembers the valiant efforts in constructing a road built by heroes. State, local and military leaders attended a proclamation ...

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 ...

Fort Greely and Delta Junction celebrated the Alaska Highway’s 75 th anniversary Saturday – and one of the soldiers who helped build it. Gov. Bill Walker and other state and local leaders attended a ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska is commemorating 75 years since nearly 4,000 segregated Black soldiers toiled in harsh weather and terrain to help build a highway across the state and Canada. In this ...

Save money, live better, travel more.U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS OFFICE OF HISTORY VIA AP The opening ceremonies of the Alcan Highway held on Nov. 20, 1942 at Soldier’s Summit, Alaska. Nearly 4,000 ...

Salmenpera is in no rush to tell us everything about his central subject, Hese Tolonen, preferring to allow the man’s motivations to roll out in fits and starts, in much the way that Tolonen’s 1950 ...

Nearly 4,000 black soldiers in segregated military units helped build a World War II-era supply road between Alaska and Canada in 1942. As the road’s 75th anniversary approaches, those soldiers are ...

First called the “Defense Highway to Alaska” and then the “AlCan Highway,” today it’s called the Alaska Highway. Originally 1,800 miles long, it’s been shortened to less than 1,500, but as it always ...

Have you ever driven the Alcan — or just wished you could? The 1,520-mile road through Canada and Alaska is a magnet for adventurous travelers. There are some hardships: rough pavement, dust, mud, and ...

Anchorage, Alaska — Leonard Larkins and nearly 4,000 other segregated black soldiers helped build a highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but ...

A section of the Alaska Highway in British Columbia near the Yukon border has reopened to one lane of traffic after the road was washed out by flooding on Friday, Canadian authorities said. A portion ...