A warming Bering Sea kept ice away from this Alaskan island — leading to the closure of a crab processing plant and fraying ...

Military leaders and a senator from Alaska have have discussed reviving a World War II-era base on Adak as part of the U.S.

Beneath Alaska’s breathtaking landscapes and pristine wilderness lies one of the most geologically active regions on the ...

Alaska has the most islands of any state in America. This cold-weather beauty is home to over 2,500 islands strewn across its shoreline and peninsulas. But the most strikingly remote of them all?

The phenomenon known as a "rat spill" takes place when a ship carrying rats docks at, or sinks near, an island previously rat-free. The rats come ashore by way of the gangplanks and ropes tied to ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of ...

Stretching like a rocky necklace from Asian to North America, the Aleutian Islands and the nearby Alaska Peninsula are the home of the Aleuts. The term "Aleut" was introduced by Russians and comes ...

Jeff Himler Sunday, May 26, 2024 12:01 a.m. | Sunday, May 26, 2024 12:01 a.m. The Battle of Attu, on one of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, is known by historians as the “Forgotten War” of World ...

Prudhoe Bay, Alaska (CNN)-- Three miles into the Beaufort Sea from the North Slope of Alaska sits a 32-acre, man-made gravel island with a gigantic blue drilling rig atop it. It is BP's Liberty ...

The Japanese invaded this Alaskan island during WWII and sent the residents to Japan. Half died there; none ever returned home. June 7, 1942, was a Sunday, and 6-year-old Nick Golodoff, like most ...