Alaska News

A federal advisory board made a controversial recommendation that women begin routine mammograms at age 50, rather than at 40. The United States Preventive Services Task Force came under heavy criticism for its position and triggered confusion and political accusations...

Postal Service is resuming a program allowing volunteers to respond to letters sent to Santa Claus in care of the North Pole, Alaska, post office. Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Friday that Deputy Postmaster General Pat Donahoe told her...

Fans in Sarah Palin's home state turned out as early as possible Tuesday to snap up copies of her highly anticipated memoir. Curiosity drove Natalie Baumgartner to pick up a copy of the former GOP vice presidential candidate's book, "Going...

Every year around this time, many children from around the world mail letters to Santa Claus addressed to the North Pole. The post office would actually forward these children's requests for various toys and goodies to North Pole, Alaska, in...

It seems that in America we all have our heroes. There’s usually something that we perceive as superior ability in a person which draws us to them. In sports, that can mean an athlete that’s at the top of their...

For over 50 years, kids have been able to write Santa Claus and sometimes get a reply from volunteers in the town of North Pole, Alaska. But now, because a volunteer in Maryland was discovered to be a sex offender,...

The small hamlet of North Pole, Alaska is going to be a little less cheery this Christmas. The town of 21,000 has been the receipient of millions of letters to Santa Claus since 1954 and makes a great seasonal living...

After a postal worker in Maryland identified a sex offender volunteering for the Operation Santa Program, the Postal Service says it is dropping the program. In 1954 the small town of North Pole, Alaska (yes it is a real place),...

Postal Service won't affect North Pole-bound Christmas wishes mailed by Tri-City children. The Associated Press reported Thursday that the Postal Service is discontinuing a national program begun in 1954 in North Pole, Alaska, where volunteers opened and responded to children's...