The new $900 billion military spending law signed by President Donald Trump last week includes special benefits for soldiers and Coast Guardsmen in Alaska, hundreds of millions in new construction ...

Alaska’s congressional delegation celebrated the passage of the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, which includes key provisions for the state. According to U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R ...

America’s farthest-west town, Adak, is being sued by a former employee who alleges he was denied overtime pay and pressured into resigning because of racism by city officials. A city council member ...

Power has been restored to all Adak residents following a 17-day outage that forced the community to rely on generators for heat and electricity. City Council members met Tuesday evening and discussed ...

The Aleutian Island town of Adak went dark on Oct. 3 when the city’s main generator suffered what Mayor Kathy McCune called a “catastrophic failure.” The city declared a local emergency on Oct. 10.

Satellite images from the NASA Earth Observatory have shown that a new island is forming in Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park. The Alsek Glacier, which once encircled a small mountain known as Prow ...

Alsek Glacier disconnected from the shoreline of Alsek Lake sometime this summer, transforming a mountain known as Prow Knob into an island. NASA Satellite images from NASA’s Earth Observatory have ...

Andrew James Pillans, 30, was reported missing while camping on the island near Kodiak at about 7:45 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, . Getty Images/iStockphoto A Kodiak man died after falling while camping ...

NASA's Earth Observatory has announced that Alaska has a "brand new island" after a retreating glacier lost contact with the Prow Knob mountain landmass in Alsek Lake. When you purchase through links ...

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