Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, is about 15 miles from Hope as the bald eagle flies, but there's no bridge or boat across the sticky glacial silt covering the bottom of Turnagain Arm. Smith, 44, ...

Across our great nation, hope abounds. That's the lesson we learned this summer as we dispatched journalists to the towns called Hope. From the Maine coast to the American South, from the heartland to ...

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 ...

In this 2020 photo captured inside a clinical setting, a health care provider places a bandage on the injection site of a patient who just received a flu vaccine. The best way to prevent seasonal flu ...

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 ...

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 ...