Helpers in the Alaska National Guard’s Operation Santa Claus board a cargo plane at Joint Base Elmendorf-Anchorage on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, for a flight to Nuiqsut, Alaska.

The Alaska National Guard's Operation Santa Claus program attempts to bring Santa and Mrs. Claus and gifts to children in Alaska Native villages each year.

Santa Claus meets children after arriving at the school in Yakutat, Alaska, as part of the Alaska National Guard's Operation Santa initiative that brings Christmas to an Indigenous community that ...

CIRCLE, Alaska — Alaska Army and Air National Guard members and Salvation Army volunteers boarded a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter with Santa Claus Nov. 6, ...

Santa and Mrs. Claus left Rudolph at home to catch a ride recently on an Alaska Air National Guard cargo plane to visit the Inupiat village of Nuiqsut, about 30 miles south of the Arctic Ocean.

YAKUTAT, Alaska – Forget the open-air sleigh overloaded with gifts and powered by flying reindeer. Santa and Mrs. Claus this week took supersized rides to southeast Alaska in a C-17 military ...