About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ...

R ussia and the US might feel like two places that are worlds apart, but sitting in the middle of the Bering Strait are two ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Rescuers searched Friday for any sign of a plane that went missing while carrying 10 people across Alaska's Norton Sound south of the Arctic Circle. The Bering Air Caravan ...

There are herds of cattle on a pair of remote Alaska islands that have survived for decades despite any number of threats to their existence. The animals have been abandoned. They’ve been forced to ...

English-speaking islands offer island life with some of the familiarity of home. Visit or relocate to any of these islands and you can relax, knowing you will be able to talk with the local people.

It’s one of a handful that have washed ashore in Haines since late November, with at least three recovered at Letnikof Cove.

Shutterstock The Most Isolated Towns in the Last Frontier You won’t find many places more remote than these small towns in ...

Little Diomede, also known as Krusenstern Island, was part of Alaska when it was purchased by the United States from Russia in 1867. During the Cold War, the Diomede islands became a strategic ...

There are two active volcanoes in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Mauna Loa and Kilauea, but Kilauea is the real "must-see." A 4,000-foot-tall mountain, Kilauea has been active since Jan. 3, 1983.

Churchill park, Alaska. Image by Jennifer C., CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Eager to dive into the captivating world ...