In the middle of March 1942, approximately one month after President Franklin Rosevelt authorized the highway, the Army Corps of Engineers began arriving in Alaska. More than 10,000 soldiers came with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, the United States and Canada feared that the Japanese ...

As we saw in part one of this series, the United States and Canada agreed to build a military highway from Fairbanks, Alaska to Dawson Creek, British Columbia in March 1942 in response to potential ...

Alaska Highway reveals a peaceful winter scene where a long road cuts through endless snow covered forest beneath soft golden ...

When the pioneer road that was the foundation for the Alaska Highway was completed in the fall of 1942, it was heralded as a great achievement for both Canada and America. The men who had worked on ...

FORT NELSON, BC, May 13, 2026 /CNW/ - The Government of Canada is taking action to rehabilitate the Alaska Highway and protect it from climate-related damage. Today, the Honourable Joël Lightbound, ...

In his first official visit to the Yukon during five years as Alaska’s governor, Mike Dunleavy signed an agreement that commits more than $31 million to repairing a damaged section of the Alaska ...

Many fiscal conservatives in Congress are aiming to cut Alaskan highway projects totaling $500 million as a method of funding reconstruction of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast. Alaska's congressional ...

Built as one of the original roadways into Alaska, most would barely recognize the Denali Highway as a headlining thoroughfare—it’s just a 135-mile two-lane gravel path, completely closed to car ...