Once part of the Russian Empire, it is now a remote outpost of the United States, sitting in the far-flung Aleutian Islands chain in Alaska. Despite its location on US soil, it lies closer to ...

the exercise is being held on Shemya Island. Alaska is a large, complex, and challenging environment that requires soldiers ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of ...