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

Authorities are working to recover the wreckage of a plane crash in western Alaska that killed 10 people while investigators ...

The Bering Sea snow crab fishery reopened in mid-October, after billions of the crab disappeared and the fishery was shut ...

At that level, an area of "dry" land as wide as 1,000km would have stretched from Asia to North America across what is now the Bering Strait. Today, some islands — St. Lawrence Island ...

The first sighting took place on July 15, when the St. Paul, under the command of Bering's second-in-command, Aleksei Chirikov, reached Prince of Wales Island. Bering's own ship, the St. Peter ...

"The epicenter was located 170 km away from the Bering Island and the township of Nikolskoye on the island’s arc," he said. "The seismic focus lay 50 meters under the sea floor." An official at ...

Decades of citizen science in Alaska helped researchers figure out how one of the biggest wildlife die-offs -- that of the seabird the common murre -- unfolded.