The issue pits a multibillion-dollar industry against Western Alaska subsistence communities struggling with record-low ...

Things in the Arctic have never been hotter. In the past year, Russian nuclear submarines have practiced firing cruise ...

That sum, amounting to just $138 million in today’s dollars, brought to an end Russia’s 125-year odyssey in Alaska and its expansion across the treacherous Bering Sea, which at one point ...

Because of the time difference, the islands are sometimes referred to as Yesterday Island and Tomorrow Island.

13 min Watch the programme The Bering Strait is the closest point of contact between Russia and the United States. It separates Chukotka, an autonomous Russian district, from Alaska by just 85 km.

A combat air patrol of American and Canadian fighter jets was scrambled this week after multiple Russian warplanes were ...

Earlier this month, commercial snow crabs started hitting Unalaska’s docks again, for the first time in nearly three years.

In 1741, Russian explorer Vitus Bering came across this region during his expedition. Alaska was known for its ... “white gold,” and the pelts of sea otters sold for an extremely high price ...

The season runs through May. Alaska Department of Fish and Game area management biologist Ethan Nichols said nine vessels are actively participating in the Bering Sea commercial fishery.