Hope, Alaska, is one of many towns with the same name across the country that USA TODAY visited to discuss hopes, fears, politics and the future. HOPE, Alaska − Fifty miles from the nearest gas ...

Renna Martin describes a typical weekend night during the summer at her beloved Seaview Inn in the community of Hope as "crazy." Fridays are busy, she said, depending on which musicians are playing, ...

The gold camp of Hope was established in 1895 at the mouth of Resurrection Creek, on the southern shore of Cook Inlet’s Turnagain Arm. Two years later, in 1897, many of Hope’s miners abandoned their ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Peggy LeMaitre no longer holds out hope that her husband is alive five weeks -- and multiple searches -- after he vanished on Alaska's Mount Marathon during a popular extreme race.

In this 2020 photo captured inside a clinical setting, a health care provider places a bandage on the injection site of a patient who just received a flu vaccine. The best way to prevent seasonal flu ...

Alaska wages and jobs associated with the oil and gas industry slid in 2016, though some contractors that have laid off large numbers of workers expressed optimism that business will rebound thanks to ...

Despite being the least visited state in the U.S., Alaska has a lot to offer outdoor enthusiasts, especially for those taking a trip to the Kenai Peninsula. Tucked-away parts of the Kenai are perfect ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - On a crisp autumn day, as office workers went about their business, one of Anchorage's major hotels became the temporary hub of what state leaders consider a promising ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump promised repeatedly during his campaign to expand oil drilling in the U.S., which is good news for political leaders in Alaska, where oil is the ...

Alaska Public Media and Well Beings team up for a community conversation about preventing youth suicide in a state with one of the highest per-capita rates in the nation. Healing from the contributing ...

HOPE, Alaska − Fifty miles from the nearest gas station, where the dirt road dead-ends at the old gold mining claims, bluegrass music drifted into the night. Dressed in mosquito-net shirts customized ...