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Why Alaska’s recent 7.3 earthquake has caught the attention of scientists
A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Wednesday, prompting a tsunami warning and calls ...
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Searching for pennies: With the cut in federal funding public broadcasters are looking to cope
Lauren Adams, general manager for KUCB public radio in Unalaska, Alaska, didn’t have much time to reflect on Congress, 4,000 ...
A Surge of Earthquakes in Alaska Is Raising Red Flags
The quake that struck Alaska’s southern coast on Wednesday, July 16 is part of a larger sequence that may continue to unfold ...
With the cut in federal funding public broadcasters look to cope
Congress eliminated almost $1.1 billion in funding for public media. The systems' leaders say the cuts threaten the survival ...
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The last in-person vote in the US will be cast on the desolate tundra ...
On a desolate slab of island tundra on Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a resident of a tiny village called Adak will again become the last American to cast an in-person ballot for president.
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Aleutian Islands campaign is spotlighted at the WW2 Museum ...
That there were and why — from June 3, 1942, to Aug. 15, 1943 — is the story told in “On American Shores: The Aleutian Islands Campaign,” a changing exhibit on view at the National WWII ...
‘Nazi Creek’ in Alaska Gets a New Name After More Than 70 Years
Little Kiska Island, at the far western end of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, is a remote speck of land that was heavily ...
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Map enthusiast helps change offensive creek name in Western Aleutians
Nazi Creek was renamed Thursday to Kaxchim Chiĝanaa, an Unangax̂ phrase replacing a name originally assigned by World War ...