Building north and south, each group would eventually meet up with other units. Construction of the Alaska Highway officially commenced on April 11, 1942. Workers corduroy the road, Robert W.

1942, U.S. Army. Signal Corps. When President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the building of the Alaska Highway in February 1942, the problem of who would actually do the construction quickly arose.

One of President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders has reignited a debate over the future of Alaska’s vast wilderness ...

Two contractor groups raised concerns about uncertainty surrounding future Alaska DOT construction projects due to delays in bidding. Details here.

The Alaska Highway and other northern roads are striped with layers of “White River ash” spewed from the volcanic field near Mount Churchill. UAF anthropologists dated ash from a northern lobe ...