The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ranks Dutch Harbor as the nation’s top port by volume. But, until recently, a shallow bar sat at the Iliuliuk Bay entrance, limiting access to the ...

China celebrated the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II on Wednesday in Beijing. Some two dozen foreign heads of state attended a carefully choreographed military parade. Front and center?

Ships could pose a risk to seabirds migrating through Alaska’s waters. Researchers mapped where ship traffic overlapped with bird traffic to pinpoint areas where flocks are more likely to smack into ...

A plan aimed at adding a pedestrian route over a highway interchange in Arcata will be presented at a city council meeting this week. The U.S. Highway 101 and State Route 255 interchange lacks ...

More than 8,600 crew members trained at the Walla Walla Air Base during World War II to fly in theaters of operation across war-torn Europe, the Aleutian Islands, Asia and the South Pacific from ...

When a deadly landslide tore through part of Wrangell, Alaska, in 2023, there was only one place people there could go for information. "We're on an island, and there's one road, and everybody that ...

For the first time in more than 10 years, the United States Coast Guard has two polar icebreakers operating in the Arctic Ocean at the same time. According to vessel tracking data, the Coast Guard ...

Russian submarine RFS Volkhov (B-603), shown here, and a PLAN submarine sailed together for the first time in early August 2025 in the Sea of Japan. The Russian submarine was spotted Aug. 20, 2025, ...

Shane Croucher is a Breaking News Editor based in London, UK. He has previously overseen the My Turn, Fact Check and News teams, and was a Senior Reporter before that, mostly covering U.S. news and ...

North Yorkshire, England — The already-risky work of fire crews battling a wildfire in England's North York Moors National Park has been made all the more dangerous by World War II-era bombs and tank ...

American aircraft intercepted a Russian surveillance flight Tuesday off the coast of Alaska for the fifth time in the past week, defense officials said Wednesday. An Ilyushin IL-20 surveillance ...

This story has been corrected. American aircraft intercepted a Russian surveillance flight Tuesday off the coast of Alaska for the fourth time in the past week, defense officials said Wednesday. An ...