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U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says the U.S. military increasingly relies on Alaska, both to provide a base of operations to maintaining dominance of…

A snowier-than-average winter and four consecutive years of budget cuts and have stretched the state Department of Transportation’s ability to plow state…

A binational meeting of military minds …The soldier operating a tracked vehicle that was transporting reporters up a steep ski slope at the Army’s Black…

Federal funding for Arctic climate-change impacts … President Obama took a step last week toward delivering on some of the promises he made in September…

The Arctic Energy Summit’s agenda didn’t include any presentations on Royal Dutch Shell’s decision to halt offshore oil exploration in the Chukchi Sea.…

The Pentagon declares climate change a national security threat …“Climate changes does pose a threat to millions of people around the world,” says Sherri…

A high-ranking U.S. official says Alaska needs more infrastructure to handle increased shipping through Arctic waters.Editor's note: Second of a two-part…