KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard commissioned its newest cutter, Coast Guard Cutter John Witherspoon (WPC 1158) for official ...

Arctic sea ice extent for March set a record low in the 47-year satellite data record. Extent was below average everywhere ...

When wildfire smoke drifts into the Methow Valley, it tends to stay, settling in the folds of the Cascade foothills like a ...

The Inuit on Little Diomede are watched over by Russian soldiers. But that’s not their biggest problem in these icy badlands ...

Over a thousand years ago, the Viking leader Erik the Red discovered a new land after being exiled for murdering his neighbor ...

Donald Trump’s efforts to claim Greenland for the US is part of a wider push toward militarization of the Arctic. Conflicts ...

Equally worrying, Russia has increased its naval cooperation with China and given Beijing access, and a stake, in the Arctic.

Mark Thiessen set out to write a story of survival about a pilot who had spent a night perched on the wing of his plane after ...

A mini-heat wave arrived in Kodiak Tuesday and broke a temperature record that has stood 70 years. The last time it got anywhere near as hot on April 1 was in 1954. Please log in, or sign up for a new ...