The Rocky Mountain Rangers kept it a secret from Tom Newell. Right up until the minute he saw the Newell House plaque that ...

A little-known creek in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska had been officially named “Nazi Creek” for 80 years — until recently. Following a campaign by a local advocate, the creek was given a new name in ...

The name Nazi Creek will no longer be used in federal databases or maps for an Aleutian Islands waterway that now has an Indigenous name. On Thursday, the Domestic Names Committee for the U.S. Board ...

Little Kiska Island, at the far western end of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, is a remote speck of land that was heavily contested during World War II. In an attack possibly timed to draw away U.S.

Spanning 1,200 miles from mainland Alaska toward Siberia and knifing between the Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean, the more than 300 mostly barren Aleutian Islands would have made for a perilous WWII ...

Alaska officials have voted unanimously to change the names of a creek and a hill on an Aleutian island in response to proposals arguing they were offensive and arbitrary. The features in question are ...

AMCHITKA ISLAND, Alaska (AP) — A series of moderate to strong earthquakes that struck Alaska’s western Aleutian Islands and offshore areas Sunday comprised what scientists call a “swarm,” but the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AMCHITKA ISLAND, Alaska (AP) — A series of ...