Scientists have been descending on the Alaska city of Barrow since 1973. This monument made of whale bones is to lost sailors. Associated Press No roads lead to Barrow, Alaska. To reach America ...

Autumn served in the Army as a critical-care nurse. She met Schweikart, a Chinook helicopter pilot, in 2020 at the Texas military base Fort Cavazos, formerly Fort Hood.

Great Alaska Pizza Company: Where ‘great’ is an understatement. This strip mall gem serves up slices bigger than your average glacier. Photo credit: Tara R. Great Alaska Pizza Company in Fairbanks is ...

The more than 30,000 soldiers, airmen and civilians at the base have learned to share the natural space surrounding the nearly 65,000-acre base with moose, elk, and other wildlife of central Alaska.

Four Russian military planes were detected and tracked off the coast of Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said Monday, just days after the U.S. Army deployed more than 100 ...

US Army soldiers were deployed to a remote island southeast of Alaska last week as part of a “force protection operation” amid an expected increase in Russian and Chinese military exercises in ...

Four soldiers remain in stable condition in area hospitals. A U.S. Army vehicle flipped over on Monday, killing two service members and injuring 12 others in the Yukon Training Area in Alaska ...

Alaska Army and Air National Guard rescue teams had a busy July 4th weekend, flying almost 2,000 miles on four missions bringing 10 people out of the state’s wilderness. None of those rescued ...

The military in Alaska has long struggled with high rates of suicide. A year and a half ago, one Army division started a program to combat the crisis.

Army Maj. Gen. Brian Eifler, commander of the newly formed 11th Airborne Division in Alaska, has championed Mission 100. Begun in 2022, the program compels soldiers to meet annually with a family ...

Then, after the U.S. Army Alaska’s official notification of the crash came in, the Guard launched two combat search and rescue aircraft within an hour, he said: An HH-60 Pavehawk helicopter with ...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — Two U.S. Army helicopters collided and crashed Thursday in Alaska while returning from a training flight, killing three soldiers and injuring a fourth.