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 ...

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 ...

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