New provisions that benefit whaling captains and rural hospitals appear to be aimed at winning over Senator Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who had said the bill would hurt her state.

Bill Atkinson, an engineer who played a key role in the development of the Macintosh and other landmark Apple products, has died of pancreatic cancer.

By Roshan Fernandez CSX reached a tentative labor agreement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen on a five-year contract that covers about 3,400 workers.

Eighty-seven percent of the NJ Transit locomotive engineers who voted were against the contract. Now a strike is possible.

Details on how the negotiations between the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and NJ Transit have been scant of late.

The Senate Finance Committee sent a bill chugging ahead on Monday that would authorize the Alaska Railroad Corporation to authorize up to $75 million in revenue bonds to replace its passenger dock ...

Alaska’s Republican U.S. senators have introduced legislation seeking to designate North America’s tallest peak as Denali.

Congress funded the construction of the Alaska Railroad, which was completed in 1923. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In the years that followed, the golden spike changed hands several times.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial act that marked the launch of a ...

President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial act that marked the launch of a system to easily bring coal ...

As a solo traveler who visited Alaska for the first time, I loved checking out the Alaska Railroad, Potter Marsh, and Kenai Fjords National Park.