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 ...

The Air National Guard has delayed personnel changes in Alaska that could have threatened national security and civilian ...

Last year, the guard conducted 159 such missions, including flying to an Alaska island just 2 miles from a Russian island to pick up a pregnant woman with abdominal pains. In one recent rescue ...

And that goes not just for conventional forces, but also for Special Operations forces like Navy SEALs and Army Green Berets.

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 2 miles (3 kilometers) from Russia's waters.

(Video: Salwan Georges) ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT OVER KODIAK ISLAND, Alaska — To the uninitiated, this felt like madness. From an altitude of 8,000 feet, six Navy SEALs were about to ...

The Air National Guard has delayed personnel changes in Alaska that could have threatened national security and civilian rescue missions ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The Air National Guard has delayed its ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Air National Guard has delayed its plan to downgrade the status of about 80 members of its Alaska unit, a move that would have threatened national security and ...