An air defense zone was established around Alaska for the identification of all aircraft in a bid to boost U.S. national ...

The United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million, securing access to the Pacific northern rim and ending Russian presence in North America.

The recording from the cockpit of an American F-35A fighter jet, which shows a close encounter with a Russian Su-35, appeared ...

In response to these provocations, Sen. Sullivan led a years-long campaign to secure broad U.S. sanctions on Russian-harvested seafood. These sanctions were finally fully implemented last year, and ...

There’s a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that most people have never heard of. Once part of the Russian ...

The Canadian Armed Forces face this challenge on a larger scale. Its soldiers are almost entirely based outside of the Arctic ...

Trump’s interest in Greenland is often associated with the island’s vast, but largely untapped, mineral resources. But its ...

Geopolitical rivalries are intensifying in the Arctic but Russia is willing to cooperate with foreign partners, including ...

Putin is offering the U.S. a stake in the minerals, rare earths and vast natural gas deposits in Russia’s Arctic.

U.S. President Donald Trump has mentioned Alaska dozens of times on his Truth Social platform, but there is no evidence he ...

It’s been 158 years since Russia sold Alaska to the United States. So how did it happen — and how did this harsh, frozen territory become one of the wealthiest states in the country? More to the point ...

On March 30, 1981, then-US President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured in an assassination attempt outside a hotel ...