Most of the reconfigured forecast zones are located around northern Alaska, the area managed by the National Weather Service's Fairbanks Forecast Office. (from National Weather Service) The ...

With coastal sea ice shrinking in the Arctic, the U.S. Air Force is creating new models to better predict erosion threats to Alaska radar sites that have played a critical role in national defense ...

Since the 1950s, Tin City has been the site of one of Alaska's long-range radar stations. It used to take nearly 200 airmen to manage these sites, most of them young men ...

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan says Alaska is back as a recognized location of importance for the U.S. military and national security. Sullivan noted that a decade ago the Pentagon wanted to close Alaska ...

The Pentagon has successfully tested a long-range radar in Alaska that can detect missile threats from Russia or China, and could someday serve as a sensor in the Golden Dome missile defense shield.

At the farthest edge of North America, across the Bering Strait from Russia, U.S. military radar stations are threatened by the consequences of climate change.