The US tried to include Greenland in the Alaska Purchase in 1867, so one could argue that Denmark and the US have been ...

The cocktails have names only Canadians understand, like “TVO Kids” and “Hadfield.” Everywhere, there is knowing Canadian ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — A walrus calf seemingly left behind by her herd near Alaska’s northernmost city is alert and “sassy” as she receives care at a nonprofit wildlife response center hundreds ...

It was on July 9, 1927, almost a hundred years ago, that Benny Benson ran the very first Alaska flag up a flagpole. He was ...

Newsday's 2025 All-Long Island flag football team. Front row, from left: Trinity Ricevuto, Ava West, Samanatha Heyman, Ivy Matthews and Delaney Israel.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The CHSAA announced its inaugural postseason All-League team for girls’ flag football, and to no surprise the squad is littered with Staten Islanders as seven of the 12 ...

As Red Flag-Alaska 25-2 concludes, participating forces return to base after completing intensive multinational air combat training. A look at what was achieved and why it matters.

Wiz Ruppert of Cranston, Rhode Island, returned to her native Kwethluk for the ... or in residents’ homes — amply fed by home-prepared meals of Alaska specialties such as walrus meat and smoked fish.

For more than a century, baseball teams in Fairbanks have played at midnight on the summer solstice, illuminated only by the sun.

Firefighters in Alaska got a surprise visit when a moose walked into their shop. Video posted to the Anchorage Fire Department’s Facebook on June 24 shows the moment a moose walked through the ...

A sea creature was spotted with a “deep gash” off the coast of Alaska, and now rangers are looking for answers. On June 27, Janet Neilson, a biologist with the Glacier Bay National Park and ...

Firefighters from Connecticut have been sent to Alaska to assist in fighting wildfires there, state officials say. In a release on Friday, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental ...