Emily Dixon, who lives near the park, said the abatement comes as a relief. For months, she said, neighbors have felt ...

President Trump threatened to punish Russia with heavy tariffs on countries that trade with Moscow if the Kremlin fails to ...

White House correspondent Jon Decker asks President Donald Trump about the proposed ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine and ...

Rear Adm. Bob Little is the new commander of the U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska, just as the big budget bill passes the president ...

The Storis, named using a Scandinavian word that means “great ice,” will be the first new icebreaker to join the polar fleet ...

The Arctic is no longer frozen in time. Ice is melting. Tensions are rising. And the world’s biggest powers are locking horns.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The U.S. military is responding after Russia and China increased their military activity near Alaska.. The U.S. military deployed 130 Army airborne soldiers with mobile rocket ...

Closer to Russia than to mainland Alaska, the remote island is 280 miles from the nearest Russia-owned island in the area. It is near the western end of Alaska's Aleutian Islands.

President Donald Trump on Monday laid out a pair of steps intended to pressure Russia to end its war in Ukraine, including ...

In 1867, Russia sold Alaska to the United States for $7.2 million. That would be around $120 million today. There were several reasons. Russia lacked the tools and people to develop the land.

It is in no one’s interest to militarise the Arctic but thanks to something of an arms race heating up between the US, Russia and China, that is precisely what looks to be happening.

It was in the middle of the 19th century that the U.S. saw its first big foreign lobbying scandal — and arguably its most impactful one before 2016. That was when czarist Russia, hoping to unload the ...