Just 2.4 miles from Russia's Big Diomede Island, the city of 83 people can see the border from the shore. "We're safe, as long as we sleep good at night," a resident told Insider. "We keep the eyes ...

It's been a full month since regular helicopter service was halted to remote Little Diomede in the Bering Strait. The aviation company flying to the island village blames a combination of mechanical ...

NOME, Alaska — A government contract delay has halted transportation to and from Little Diomede Island, one of Alaska’s most remote communities. The weekly helicopter flights were suspended because a ...

On a small Alaskan island just two miles from the Russian border, members of Alaska’s Air National Guard rescued a critically ill pregnant woman using a medical helicopter. While it’s not uncommon ...

In the Bering Strait, two small islands sit only a few miles apart, yet they operate on different calendar days. One belongs ...

After nearly 20 months of watching the mail come and go via helicopter, but not being able to do so themselves, villagers on the island of Little Diomede are once again able to purchase $320 one-way ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Across the Bering Strait, Robert Soolook can easily see the looming hulk of the neighboring Russian island where some of his relatives used to live before they were forced to ...

House on the shore of Teller which is on the banks of Port Clarence. Most of the 280 inhabitants are Eskimo who subsist on fishing or hunting reindeer. (Photo by National Ocean Service, NOAA). Eskimo ...

A new user to TikTok has gone viral for saying there’s a way to walk to Russia from the U.S. Laub Andrew made his TikTok debut with a "geography lesson" on Feb. 22, which shows the two Diomede Islands ...

Life in Diomede, Alaska, is unlike anywhere else in the United States. Just 2.4 miles from Russia's Big Diomede Island, the city of 83 people can see the border from the shore. "We're safe, as long as ...

NOME, Alaska (AP) - A government contract delay has halted transportation to and from Little Diomede Island, one of Alaska’s most remote communities. The weekly helicopter flights were suspended ...