A one-mile stream in Alaska dubbed “Nazi Creek” after it was reclaimed from the Axis Powers during World War II has finally ...

Following a campaign by a local advocate, the creek was given a new name in the language of the local Indigenous people, in a move supported by an Anchorage synagogue.

Little Kiska Island, at the far western end of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, is a remote speck of land that was heavily ...

Its new name is Kaxchim Chiĝanaa, meaning either “gizzard creek” or “creek or river belonging to gizzard island” in Unangam ...

The US Board on Geographic Names has approved the renaming of ‘Nazi Creek’ and a nearby hill on Little Kiska Island, with ...

That there were and why — from June 3, 1942, to Aug. 15, 1943 — is the story told in “On American Shores: The Aleutian Islands Campaign,” a changing exhibit on view at the National WWII ...

During WWII, when nearly 90,000 troops were mobilized to the Aleutian Islands, Adak was used by the Army Air Corps for defensive operations against the Japanese during battles at Attu and Kiska ...

Midas sank in the North Pacific Ocean, weeks after crew members abandoned ship when they couldn't extinguish an onboard fire.

Researchers now say the bears likely traveled to the central Aleutian Islands region around the Neoglacial climate phase — from about 5,000 to 3,000 years ago — when sea ice was present in the ...

In the remote Aleutian Islands, Alpha Welding and Boat Repair have taken delivery of a 90 tonne Liebherr LRT 1090-2.1 rough ...