U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his country’s last ...

The Russian Ministry of Defense shared footage of its aircraft which flew near Alaska last Thursday. More BAY ISMOYO/AFP via ...

When he selected Alaska, the Bering Strait School District ... Equipment plows an ice runway near the Alaskan island of ...

The U.S. military said it detected four Russian military aircraft flying near Alaska. NORAD confirmed that the aircraft ...

In one instance, a military helicopter flew nearly 660 miles (1,062 kilometers) to pick up a pregnant woman with stomach pains from an Alaska island ... respond to Russian bombers near American ...

Four Russian military planes that were detected flying near Alaska never entered American or Canadian airspace and never posed a threat to national security, according to a federal aerospace ...

Iggiagruk Hensley, University of Alaska Anchorage ... westernmost Aleutian Islands and his eventual death from scurvy in December 1741, it was an incredible success for Russia.

Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de ... that bears his name and sighted Mt. Saint Elias, near what is now the village of Yakutat, Alaska. Although Bering’s second Kamchatka Expedition ...