Hope, Alaska, is one of many towns with the same name across the country that USA TODAY visited to discuss hopes, fears, politics and the future. HOPE, Alaska − Fifty miles from the nearest gas ...

From Maine to Alaska, we reported from towns named Hope about the state of a nation that to all appearances is divided, angry and fearful about its future amid a ferocious election year. We found ...

Reporting from Hope, Alaska — To say that this town called Hope may not have much of a future, one might only look at its location: at the end of a narrow, 17-mile road that springs promisingly off ...

Despite being the least visited state in the U.S., Alaska has a lot to offer outdoor enthusiasts, especially for those taking a trip to the Kenai Peninsula. Tucked-away parts of the Kenai are perfect ...

The gold camp of Hope was established in 1895 at the mouth of Resurrection Creek, on the southern shore of Cook Inlet’s Turnagain Arm. Two years later, in 1897, many of Hope’s miners abandoned their ...

Walking among the old sod and whalebone houses on the edge of the Bering Sea, it’s easy to let the world around you fade away. We’ve come to Point Hope, Alaska, one of the oldest continuously ...

Denouncing both presumptive U.S. presidential candidates as well as actions by Congress during an election year, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski delivered an annual address to the Alaska Legislature she ...

Among this year’s Alaska Folk Festival lineup of artists is Hope Griffin, a singer/songwriter based out of Asheville, North Carolina, whose music has been inspired by Alaska regardless of her physical ...

Andy Jones, the Section Chief for the state Department of Health and Social Services, is heading up a new statewide program to get the drug Naloxone, also known by its commercial name Narcan, into the ...

HOPE, Alaska − Fifty miles from the nearest gas station, where the dirt road dead-ends at the old gold mining claims, bluegrass music drifted into the night. Dressed in mosquito-net shirts customized ...