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 ...

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 ...

Russia plans to build the world's longest undersea tunnel, a 64-mile transport & pipeline link that would run from Siberia to Alaska and supply ... connecting two islands in the Bering Strait ...