A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 1, 1946, a magnitude 8.6 earthquake ...

The creek is a mile-long stream on the southeastern side of Little Kiska Island, beside the bigger, more prominent Kiska Island 242 miles west of Adak at the far end of the Aleutian chain.

On a small island in the Aleutians, some place names from World War II are reminders of the hate and racism of that time. An ...

There’s a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that most people have never heard of. Once part of the Russian ...

Their complaint calls for the United Nations to investigate how military waste on Sivuqaq continues to violate the rights of ...

Alaska residents are again being urged to brace ... Mount Spurr is one of a string of volcanos in the Aleutian Islands and is part of what's known as the Ring of Fire, created by the Pacific ...

The Pavlof Volcano spews ash in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska in 2016. REUTERS Those eruptions each lasted for only a few hours, though they produced massive ash clouds that carried downwind for ...

She believes military contamination on St. Lawrence Island is a cause. The tribal governments of Alaska's St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea say they’re living with the toxic legacy of Cold ...

An Escanaba native who was working on a fishing vessel in Alaska has been found dead. Jacob Riley Veeser, 28, began working ...

Two tiny, remote Antarctic islands where only penguins and seals live have been hit with a 10% tariff from President Donald ...

indigenous-led development in communities from Alaska to the Caribbean, including partnering with the native corporation Klawock Heenya on Prince of Wales Island. On the southern stretch of the ...