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 ...

Shutterstock The Matanuska Colony of Alaska President Roosevelt started the Matanuska Colony in 1935 as part of his plan to fight the Great Depression. The government picked 202 struggling farm ...

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 ...

Remote, freezing, and nearly forgotten—the Aleutian Islands saw the only ground battle on U.S. soil in WWII. What happened on Attu and Kiska was anything but typical.

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Andreanof Islands in the Aleutian Islands on March 21, 2025, at 15:03:29 GMT, according to the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.

The Aleutian Islands Campaign was a military campaign led by U.S. and Canadian forces on the Islands of Attu and Kiska. It saw the only land battle fought on U.S. soil in World War two. . Apart ...

Sunken shipwrecks tell the story of Alaska’s ‘forgotten’ WWII battlefield U.S. and Japanese forces fought over the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Relics of this conflict can still be ...

Alaska’s western Aleutian islands and surrounding areas were rocked by a cluster of moderate to strong earthquakes on Sunday which scientists call a ‘swarm.’ State earthquake monitors have ...

AMCHITKA ISLAND, Alaska (AP) — A series of moderate to strong earthquakes that struck Alaska’s western Aleutian Islands and offshore areas Sunday comprised what scientists call a “swarm,&#822… ...