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 ...

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

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 ...

Russia is visible from the U.S., as evidenced in a photograph shared in February 2024 that allegedly shows Russian territory as seen from Alaska, just 2 miles away. Although Russia's Big Diomede ...

The Alaska Air National Guard this week traveled nearly 660 miles to rescue a pregnant woman on a small island 2 miles from Russia, reflecting the challenges patients face in the nation’s largest ...

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 ...

The 114 people who live on the Alaskan island of Little Diomede in the Bering Sea have been cut off from passenger air service — and basic health care on the mainland — for more than three months. The ...

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 ...