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

Alaska Public Media reports that archaeologists from the Alutiiq Museum have discovered several new Native American village sites on Shuyak Island, which is located in the Kodiak Archipelago. The ...

The federal Board of Geographic Names has rejected a proposal to name a summit in Denali National Park and Preserve after a ...

Do you think you know everything about the good ol' U.S. of A.? These fascinating U.S. geography facts are guaranteed to blow ...

A cargo ship carrying 3,000 new vehicles sank in the North Pacific off the coast of Alaska several weeks after catching fire and being abandoned by its crew.

A cargo ship that was carrying more than 3,000 new vehicles to Mexico capsized and sank in the North Pacific Ocean off Alaska weeks after it caught fire.

Maps show how far smoke from Canadian wildfires has spread Smoke from wildfires in Canada has spread more than 5,000 miles. In the past week, it has reached parts of Russia and Europe.

They were rescued by a nearby merchant vessel called the Cosco Hellas in the North Pacific, roughly 300 miles (490 kilometers) southwest of Adak, which is in Alaska's Aleutian island chain.

abandoned ship after they could not control a fire aboard the vessel in waters off Alaska's Aleutian island chain. A large plume of smoke was initially seen at the ship's stern coming from the deck ...

Sometimes, the best kind of escape isn’t a luxury resort or a famous beach; it’s a quiet, untouched speck of land where time slows down. These remote islands aren’t easy to reach, but that ...

Spanning 1,200 miles from mainland Alaska toward Siberia and knifing between the Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean, the more than 300 mostly barren Aleutian Islands would have made for a perilous WWII ...

An uptick in Russian and Chinese activity near Alaska -- home to America’s largest fleet of advanced fighter jets and a cornerstone of its missile defense architecture -- is fueling calls to ...