the exercise is being held on Shemya Island. Alaska is a large, complex, and challenging environment that requires soldiers ...

a batch of several dozen volcanic islands stretching from Southcentral Alaska along the Aleutian Chain to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East. Spurr is about 80 miles west of Anchorage ...

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with the last such purchase being the Danish West Indies [today the U.S. Virgin Islands] in 1917. As the Alaska Purchase demonstrated, courtesy of the then-Russian Empire, it can be thought of as ...

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She believes military contamination on St. Lawrence Island is a cause. The tribal governments of Alaska's St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea say they’re living with the toxic legacy of Cold ...

The Trump administration appears to be leaving no stone unturned with its sweeping tariffs around the globe, from rocky ...

The treaty restricts the military uses of the archipelago, but the islands are not a demilitarised zone. There are two Russian settlements ... the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, ...

according to Alaska Division of Insurance Director Lori Wing-Heier, who implemented the reinsurance program in 2017 — leading 18 other states to follow suit. Alaskans insured through the federal ...