ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial act that marked the launch of a system to ...

More than a century after becoming an emblem for the development of the Last Frontier, a major Alaska artifact is returning home. The Anchorage Museum and the City of Nenana have acquired the golden ...

XENIA — A man who has spent decades on death row after he was convicted of murdering a woman with a railroad spike is out of prison. David Lee Myers walked out of the courthouse on Monday, but the ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - Officials in Henderson County are investigating after someone recently threw railroad spikes through multiple drivers’ windshields on a highway. The North ...

XENIA — A man who was sentenced to death after he was convicted of murdering a woman with a railroad spike will get a new trial. David Lee Myers, was convicted of aggravated murder in February 1996. A ...

In December, leaders of the Anchorage Museum in Alaska began hearing “some rumblings” on social media. Those “rumblings,” as Monica Shah, the museum’s deputy director of collections and conservation, ...

A forged railroad spike is shaped into a functional axe. Step-by-step metalworking shows the transformation from raw steel to ...