The United States made the deal of the centuries — securing the vast Alaska territory from Russia for $7.2 million — on this day in history, Oct. 18, 1867. The transfer of 665,000 square miles ...

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Since 1867, when the United States purchased the colony of Alaska from Russia, fortune-seekers had migrated to the territory, mostly settling around its southern panhandle. Beginning with the 1896 ...

The border was fuzzy in Southeast Alaska due to a lack of geographic understanding: the treaty said the boundary should run ...

Two Chinese vessels and two Russian patrol vessels were seen by the U.S. Coast Guard near the maritime boundary between the U ...

noting that Soolook told Insider that life on the island hasn't changed dramatically since Russia invaded Ukraine. "We keep the eyes and ears." The city of Diomede, Alaska, on Little Diomede ...

Russia has imposed hurdles of its own on cooperation with the West. Syndonia Bret-Harte, the science director of Toolik Field Station and a University of Alaska Fairbanks professor. “It is like ...

The United States made the deal of the centuries — securing the vast Alaska territory from Russia for $7.2 million — on this day in history, Oct. 18, 1867. The transfer of 665,000 square miles ...

Finally, our visit to the Stewart Family Resort in Glacier View was the highlight of our trip ... Before its purchase by the ...

We are heading to Fairbanks, 400 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle in the Alaska Interior. It's late September, and a few days earlier, nature began a spectacle of bright, luminous colours.We head ...

Qilak LNG plans to invest $5 billion in a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Alaska’s North Slope to compete with Russia’s Yamal project for Asian customers towards the end of ...