In 1867, Russia sold Alaska to the United States for just $7.2 million, about two cents per acre. Today, many historians and analysts call it one of the greatest strategic mistakes in Russian ...

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...

In 1867, The Alaska Purchase was ratified by just one vote pavingthe way for the eventual admission of America's largest state in 1958.

Other animals on the island include the bald eagle, Sitka deer, and otter. Kodiak Island is also home to the native Alutiiq people. The island was discovered by Russian explorer Vitus Bering in 1741.

In Alaska Native Resilience, Holly Miowak Guise draws on oral histories and archival research to look at how Alaska Natives ...

As President Donald Trump prepares an executive order that could end birthright citizenship for non-citizens having children ...

Congress’s one-size-fits-all bill doesn’t take into account the realities of life in Alaska.

"St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska," as she is officially known, was canonized June 19 as the first female ...

Alaska, like other states around the nation, is compiling a 10-year plan to guide conservation of sometimes vulnerable wildlife populations. Alaska’s State Wildlife Action Plan, which is in ...

This is the first year that local Weather Service offices have begun issuing heat advisories. Before this month, any risk of heat was disseminated through special weather statements.

The state, which previously issued information about high temperatures using special weather statement, has issued its first heat advisory.