Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has asked the U.S. Department of Energy to consider expanding the nation’s emergency stash of crude oil by adding a storage site at the former military base on Adak ...

Houses built for military families on the north side of Adak before the Base Reallignment and Closures Act in 1995 led the Defense Department to shutter operations on the island by 1997 (Photo ...

Tallis downplayed Adak's location as a maritime resupply route due to the lack of "necessary supporting infrastructure," but noted the base's "real potential value is in staging aircraft, and for ...

The U.S. Coast Guard recently disciplined several service members for damaging a house and a church on Adak, highlighting the problem of vandalism on the deteriorating former military base. Last ...

“Adak could be an air station, a submarine base, a base for navy surface vessels to port in,” Sullivan explained. “It’s the gateway to the arctic, it’s a flank on the Chinese.” ...

The island’s population shrank rapidly when the base was decommissioned, falling from over 4,000 residents in the 1990s to fewer than 50 people today. The city closed its school last year due to ...