As 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the 'Forced To Leave' exhibit at the UAMN highlights Alaska's involvement with World War II.

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 ...

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. Pagano has long believed Japan should pay more ...

Kirk Hays, 57, from Phoenix, Arizona, who is a traveling artist, shared a video of his explorations of the island, which remains radioactive after U.S. testing of nuclear bombs between 1946 and 1958.

US Army soldiers were deployed to a remote island southeast of Alaska last week as part of a “force protection operation” amid an expected increase in Russian and Chinese military exercises in ...

The island is part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. In August, Pagano made her first trip to Attu, on a ship operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the refuge.

The U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers to Shemya Island in Alaska's Aleutian chain. The deployment comes in response to a recent surge in Russian military activity near U.S. territory.

Two years ago, a U.S. Coast Guard ship about 85 miles north of Alaska's Kiska Island in the Bering Sea came across three Chinese and four Russian naval vessels sailing in single formation.

Oh, rats! A tiny Alaskan island known as the “Galapagos of the North” with a population of just 350 is in a panic over a singular rat that may not even exist. Residents of the St. Paul Island ...

An Army combat unit has been deployed to Shemya Island off the coast of Alaska in response to recent Russian and Chinese military activity into the Arctic region, service officials said. The 11th ...