The Alaska Volcano Observatory says that if the snowcapped volcano erupts, the impacts could include damage to aircraft from ash.

She went alongside Japanese officials who, as part of a redoubled effort to recover the remains of World War II soldiers killed abroad, unearthed the bones of two people from the tundra ... Attu ...

The large peninsula we now call Alaska was ... and Kayak Island the next day. But the ships by this time had become separated, and the St. Peter was beached near the Aleutian island now known ...

ending the nearly one year occupation of the Aleutian Islands. An invasion of the continental United States seemed less likely, and the urgency and importance of the Alaska Highway faded.

Their complaint calls for the United Nations to investigate how military waste on Sivuqaq continues to violate the rights of ...

The Discovery+ doc explores Alaska's rugged Aleutian Island chain with filmmaker Ian Shive and a U.S. Fish and Wildlife research team. “It was a trip of a lifetime,” says the Los Angeles-based ...

Jeff Himler Sunday, May 26, 2024 12:01 a.m. | Sunday, May 26, 2024 12:01 a.m. The Battle of Attu, on one of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, is known by historians as the “Forgotten War” of World ...

This month, state officials voted unanimously to change the names of a creek and a hill on an Aleutian island in response to proposals arguing they were offensive and arbitrary. The features in ...

Attu Island is the most westerly of Alaska's Aleutian chain. It was one of the few U.S. territories, including Guam, the Philippines and the nearby island of Kiska, to be captured during the war.