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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ten thousand years ago, as the Pleistocene ended and the Holocene began, sea levels rose and trapped a small group of woolly mammoths — possibly as few as eight — on Wrangel Island off the Siberian ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than 100 years, Russia has illegally occupied Wrangel Island, an American-claimed island in the Arctic—and has now fortified it with a military base. Wrangel Island, a remote Arctic gem in ...

WRANGELL, Alaska (AP) — 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 acres and have ...

(Reuters) -At least three people have been killed, and three others are believed to be missing, in a landslide on the principal highway serving an island community in Southeast Alaska, state officials ...

A 1908 shipwreck near Wrangell that killed 111 of the 138 men on board, mostly Asian cannery workers returning home, will be narrated by various current and former residents of the community in a five ...