If you grew up in Alaska, at one point or another you have learned about Benny Benson and the creation of the Alaska state flag. If you are like me, the details of the story became a little faded over ...

Officials in Seward, Alaska, will decide Monday whether to demolish a neglected historical boarding school where the state flag was first flown nearly a century ago and where its Alaska Native ...

A state of Alaska flag flies outside the Atwood Building in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday, March 11, 2022. The state has issued a corrected birth certificate for Benny Benson, the teenager who ...

ANCHORAGE — A neglected site where the Alaska territorial flag was designed, sewn and first flown will be demolished despite last-minute efforts by Alaskans and a preservation group to save it. The ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The state of Alaska has issued a corrected birth certificate for the teenage designer of the Alaska flag, after researchers who were looking into his heritage found records ...

A drawing contest became a life-changer for 13-year-old Benny Benson. The year was 1927. The Alaska American Legion sponsored a design-the-Alaska-flag contest for children in the seventh through 12th ...

This undated photo shows a building that remains at the site of the Jesse Lee Home in Seward, Alaska, where the territorial flag, which later became the Alaska state flag, was first flown. The Seward ...

The National Park Service said none of its officials have sought to ban the American flag at Denali National Park & Preserve, and the American flag has continued to fly at multiple locations ...

TALKEETNA, Alaska — There is a little train in Alaska that stops for hitchhikers. It’s the Alaska Railroad’s Hurricane Turn and it’s said to be America’s last flag-stop train. The Hurricane Turn runs ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The fate of one of Alaska’s most historic yet neglected structures could be decided Monday as city officials in Seward weigh whether to demolish a former Methodist boarding school ...