German soldiers never stepped foot on the speck of land at the far end of the Aleutian Islands during World War II, but the ...

Most of the U.S. volcanoes that have been making themselves known since spring woke up a bit, shook themselves off and then ...

A study published on July 10 in the journal Science maps the path of Greenland sled dogs from their ancient origins to the present day. Researchers sequenced the genomes of 92 dogs from regions of ...

A small creek on Little Kiska Island has been renamed, more than 80 years after it was named by soldiers fighting in the ...

The US Board on Geographic Names has approved the renaming of ‘Nazi Creek’ and a nearby hill on Little Kiska Island, with ...

The renamed sites include a mile-long stream formerly known as “ Nazi Creek ” and a nearby summit previously bearing a ...

Check out our week-long 3 Alaska National Parks Trip report including Denali National Park, Kenai Fjords National Park, and ...

Here’s five things to know about the condition of Waterfront Park and the promenade as the city prepares for its biggest ...

When he was in his mid-20s, Joel Jackson helped start the company which would lay the roads that enabled old-growth logging on the remote Southeast Alaska island where he grew up, a part of the vast ...

Of the yet-to-be-discovered oil on U.S. federal lands, about half is believed to be in Alaska, according to the new estimate.

The team consists 18 members from the Connecticut Interstate Fire Crew, DEEP said, along with 2 members from the Rhode Island ...