The Marine Corps is moving deeper into Alaska with an initiative designed to build a more persistent presence in the Arctic.

The U.S. Marines Corps doesn’t have a big presence in Alaska, but that presence is expanding. The Corps announced two new initiatives Friday that will bring more Marines north to Alaska, some on a ...

The "Campaign - Alaska" effort includes a new permanent detachment as well as the rotational force for training Marines in ...

The U.S. military has moved more than 100 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in the Aleutian chain of western Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and ...

Utilities in the Fairbanks and Anchorage area said they don’t have the natural gas supply to support a large data center.

Military members shop at the JBER commissary on July 24, 2025. The government shutdown is causing financial anxiety for many military families, and local services are seeing large spikes in demand.

Rep. Kevin McCabe’s recent opinion column about the military (“The military’s mission is to win wars, not woke dogma”) says more about his worldview than about the troops he presumes to defend. In ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Four Russian military aircraft entered international airspace close to ...

In 1900, the Signal Corps began building the Washington-Alaska Military Cable & Telegraph System to provide basic communications to the area. The completion of the Alaskan Cable System in 1904 was ...