The meeting between President Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is taking place in a region rich with significance for Moscow. Once Russian territory, Alaska was sold by Alexander II in 1867 for ...

An economic envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin has pitched the idea of building an underwater tunnel to link Russia with Alaska. It shouldn’t be too long and expensive to build, with Elon ...

The organizers have structured the route and refueling locations: Irkutsk - Kirensk - Yakutsk - Magadan - Anadyr - Providence Bay - Nome (the US) - Fairbanks - Anchorage - Kodiak - Sitka, and back ...

“That’s an interesting one,” President Donald Trump said in the Oval Office, his voice half curiosity, half restraint, when presented with one of the most ambitious infrastructure proposals in recent ...

Russia’s appetite for its past has always been ravenous. Nothing illustrates it better than Moscow’s fixation on Alaska, a fixation less about America’s frontier than about Ukraine’s survival. When ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On October 18, 1867, the United States formally acquired Alaska from Russia in a landmark $7.2 million deal that would reshape the future of North America. The purchase was ...

Oct. 18 (UPI) --On this day in history: In 1776, the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania was established. Dubbed the "Mason-Dixon" line, it became the unofficial boundary between North and South.

American aircraft intercepted a Russian surveillance flight Tuesday off the coast of Alaska for the fifth time in the past week, defense officials said Wednesday. An Ilyushin IL-20 surveillance ...