A man is facing a lawsuit from the City of Whittier after city leaders claim he moved forward in developing his property ...

Feeling spurned by the city’s plan to go ahead with a plan to remove and replace dozens of beloved Uptown Whittier trees, the ...

In interviews over the first half of the year, USA TODAY reporters repeatedly heard frustration and a deep longing for better ...

City National Bank employees volunteered to hand out more than 200 backpacks stocked with school supplies to students at the ...

Author Mike Coppock reviews some more popular destinations but also covers communities like Pelican and Yakutat that are ...

Faced with sharply increasing cruise traffic, Juneau has taken steps to limit the number of passengers calling at one time.

One of the residents said the family inside was held at gunpoint after a group of four or five masked suspects broke into the home and demanded money.

City leaders say the Homeless Outreach Prevention and Engagement team will help reach homeless residents while ensuring they ...

Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, is about 15 miles from Hope as ... and anglers head out for salmon and halibut from Whittier. Others make the 70-mile drive to Seward to clamber up an overlook ...

So we visited six towns called Hope, from Michigan to Arkansas, Maine to Alaska, looking for signs of optimism and what was getting in people's way. Here's what we found at the end of the road ...