German soldiers never set foot on the speck of land at the far end of the Aleutian Islands during World War II, but the name ...

A little-known creek in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska had been officially named “Nazi Creek” for 80 years — until this week. Following a campaign by a local advocate, the creek was given a new name ...

The renamed sites include a mile-long stream formerly known as “ Nazi Creek ” and a nearby summit previously bearing a ...

Its new name is Kaxchim Chiĝanaa, meaning either “gizzard creek” or “creek or river belonging to gizzard island” in Unangam ...

Launch Alaska — which supports innovative startup companies and has a focus on energy, transportation and industrial technology — said in its lawsuit that the grant termination was arbitrary.

President Trump’s tariffs remain contentious, and in response China is exploiting U.S. reliance on rare-earth and critical minerals by ordering restrictions on exports. Alaska has untapped ...

The Alaska Court of Appeals has overturned an Anchorage man’s attempted murder conviction after finding that the trial judge improperly instructed jurors before they convicted the man.

A tourist who went missing after she failed to return to her cruise ship last week has been found dead. Marites Buenafe, 62, of Kentucky, was visiting Alaska’s capital city when she did not ...

Rescuers in Alaska said on Thursday that they had recovered the body of a Kentucky woman who went missing after she left a cruise ship to go on a hike near Juneau earlier in the week.

For the first time, the state known for glaciers, dogsledding and northern lights issued a heat advisory, with Fairbanks pushing the mid-80s.