The Lower 48 has experienced a massive freight recession over the past few years, but the opposite is occurring in one place in the United States: Alaska. With various North Slope oil production ...

A massive flood has wreaked havoc on the Dalton Highway, Alaska’s critical lifeline to the Prudhoe Bay oil fields, leaving a gaping 80-foot-wide hole in the road. The disaster struck on Saturday, ...

A hiker looks down on the Dalton Highway and the trans-Alaska pipeline from the top of Sukakpak Mountain in 2014. The Dalton Highway corridor is the in the Central Yukon Resource Management Plan area.

Trucking is booming in Alaska compared to the Lower 48 where a massive freight recession has resulted in recent bankruptcies and layoffs. A chronic driver shortage has boosted pay, with full-time ...