Oct. 6—Two Russians who arrived on St. Lawrence Island by boat were flown off the Bering Sea island by federal government officials this week, setting off a scramble by multiple agencies. Few details ...

Two foreign nationals coming from Russia were detained on Alaska's St. Lawrence Island earlier this week before being taken to Anchorage. The two unidentified men arrived by boat on Tuesday in Gambell ...

Two Russians landed at St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea on Wednesday to request asylum after fleeing their homeland to escape compulsory military service, both U.S. Senators from Alaska said on ...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Two Russians who said they fled the country to avoid compulsory military service have requested asylum in the U.S. after landing on a remote Alaskan island in the Bering Sea, Alaska U ...

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency issued a warning this week advising mariners of upcoming Russian missile operations in the Bering Sea. The operations are expected to continue from Thursday ...

An aerial view of St. Lawrence Island from 2015. (Laura Kraegel/KNOM) Two Russian Indigenous Siberians were so scared of having to fight the war in Ukraine, they chanced everything to take a small ...

For over 2,000 years, the Indigenous people known as the Yupik have occupied St. Lawrence Island, a sliver of Alaska that rests in the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle and where, on a clear day ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 2001, traditional scholars Branson Tungiyan and Estelle Oozevaseuk from St. Lawrence Island traveled to the Smithsonian Institution to share ...

Upon hearing a tambourine drum, villagers on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea in the Arctic hurry to the community hall. Dressed in jeans and T-shirts, they begin to dance, accompanied by ...

Editor’s note, Oct. 6: This story has been updated. Find the latest information here. Two Russians who arrived on St. Lawrence Island by boat were flown off the Bering Sea island by federal government ...