John “Jack” Reed spent 20 years and 25 days as a physical oceanographer for the U.S. Coast Guard, and one of the major ...

Alaskans have been gathering in the tiny coastal town of Valdez to celebrate the art of climbing ice Alaska’s hardiest ...

A day of paddling in Alaska turned deadly yesterday: The bodies of three German tourists were recovered from Valdez Glacier Lake. Although no cause of death has been determined yet, authorities ...

The fallout from the North Sea oil tanker collision on March 10 may have you reflecting on other significant man-made ...

Flickr, licensed under CC BY 2.0 The Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, in March 1989. This resulted in an estimated 11 million gallons of oil spilling into the water ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) - On March 24 of 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez struck the Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound. Over the next few days it spilled 10.8 million gallons of crude oil into ...

View west to port Valdez, the glacial fiord that will be the Trans-Alaska pipeline terminus, with Robe lake in the foreground the Lowe river dumps its burden of silty rock flour into port Valdez ...

The town constable, Bob Valdez (Burt Lancaster), is forced to kill someone accused by Frank Tanner of being a murderer. Valdez asks Tanner for monetary help for the man's wife, but he is ridiculed ...