NOME, Alaska -- To the unimaginative eye, the view of Nome, Alaska, from Joy Baker's well-heated SUV looked like a whole lot of nothing: The early winter sun was sliding below the horizon barely four ...

Situated along the rugged western coast of Nome, this remote Alaskan town has long been the subject of eerie headlines, unsettling rumors, and one very controversial Hollywood film. With its vast ...

For me, the most compelling stories are the ones with no answers, and the true story of Nome, Alaska, proves that truth can be stranger than fiction. Over the years, roughly two dozen people from Nome ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author and cultural anthropologist Michael Engelhard is shining a new light on one of Alaska’s most storied towns in his ...

Sometimes, even a world-famous event isn't enough to draw tourism to a small town. But, in the case of Nome, a hidden tiny town in Alaska, this doesn't seem to bother locals too much. Residents relish ...

To the unimaginative eye, the view of Nome, Alaska, from Joy Baker’s well-heated SUV looked like a whole lot of nothing: The early winter sun was sliding below the horizon barely four hours after it ...

NOME, Alaska — Along the remote western edge of Alaska, just before it hits the narrow strait dividing America from the Russian Far East, Rolland Trowbridge is holding a contraption he designed and ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a ...