Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Life in Diomede, Alaska, is unlike anywhere else in the United States. Just 2.4 miles from Russia's Big Diomede Island, the city ...

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 ...

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 ...

Located just three miles apart from each other, the two remote islands of Big Diomede and Little Diomede are divided by two time zones. The two islands, Big Diomede (Russia) and Little Diomede (USA), ...

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 relocate to the Soviet ...

LITTLE DIOMEDE -- Build it and they will come. Don't and they will pass by. This is the trendy, yet sincere, Arctic call-to-action about ports and ice breakers among big thinkers who plan for the ...

There are two islands in the middle of the Bering Strait—Big Diomede Island and Little Diomede Island. They are only about 4 kilometers apart, but there lies an invisible divide between them. When the ...

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 ...