The U.S. Board on Geographic Names, a 135-year-old federal body, voted on Thursday to change the names of two entities in Alaska, one with Nazi ties and the other a derogatory term for Japanese people ...

Set in the Northern Pacific Ocean, the Aleutian Islands—"Land of the Aleuts"—form an archipelago of 14 large volcanic islands ...

Looking for a place to experience majestic, enormous orca whales in Washington? The Salish Sea is an intricate network of ...

Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian, accommodating its vast geographical size. This system, introduced by railroads in the 1880s, helps organize daily life, transportation ...

Hawaii’s unique position in the center of the Pacific Ocean makes it particularly vulnerable to tsunamis from both distant ...

Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of ...

While public TV and radio stations in much of rural America don’t depend on federal funding as heavily as their Alaska ...

Lauren Adams, general manager for KUCB public radio in Unalaska, Alaska, didn't have much time to reflect on Congress, 4,000 miles away, stripping federal funding for public media ...