Imagine living with all your classmates and the majority of your town’s population under just one roof. Imagine your local post office, grocery store and police station being just an elevator ride ...

Whittier, Alaska is home to a little over 200 people. That, in and of itself, isn’t all that strange; there are plenty of small towns all over the country, to say nothing of the globe. What makes ...

Whittier, Alaska, is a sleepy town on the west side of Prince William Sound, tucked between picturesque mountains. But if you're picturing a small huddle of houses, think again. Instead, on the edge ...

Erika Thompson teaches grade school in Whittier, Alaska. Erika Thompson teaches grade school in Whittier, Alaska, a town where most people live and work in one building, and is only accessible by a ...

After 4 years of full time van life we've visited some unique & unusual places but Whittier in Alaska is on another level.

Curving south from Anchorage, the Seward Highway leads drivers around the northern edge of Turnagain Arm, passing the ski town of Girdwood and the long tunnel to Whittier before crossing the Kenai ...

An Alaska Native corporation is pursuing plans to build a second cruise ship dock in Whittier, potentially bringing more than 100,000 new visitors each summer to the tiny town on Prince William Sound.

Fire crews block off Harbor Loop Road to extinguish a fire on the Whittier fuel dock on July 4th, 2023. (Valerie Kern/Alaska Public Media). A fire broke out at a Whittier fuel dock on Tuesday, ...

Coast Guard crews have suspended the search for one person missing after an explosion and subsequent fire at Delong Dock in Whittier, Alaska, Monday. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard ...

This sleepy town on the west side of Prince William Sound is remote, and it's hit with brutal winter weather every year. Most of the residents... Welcome To Whittier, Alaska, A Community Under One ...