America's newest warship, the USS Anchorage, was commissioned during a persistent spring snow Saturday morning at the Port of Anchorage. Several thousand people stood or sat in the slush on the ...

The U.S. Navy’s WWII-era Alaska-class ships were unique and powerful warships, essentially a hybrid of a battlecruiser and a ...

On June 19, Lisa Fordyce-Blair’s East Anchorage neighbors mowed her lawn. The family had been extending this small neighborly act for years — ever since her husband, a Navy officer, died ...

A graduate of the Navy’s Nuclear Power Program, Craig, 46, served aboard the carrier Theodore Roosevelt as the flattop’s executive officer before taking the helm of the Anchorage five months ago.

PORT OF ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Just 20 U.S. sailors are currently stationed in Alaska. But thanks to a shift in how the U.S. is thinking about Arctic defense, that could be about to change. That, at ...

Marines put their amphibious combat vehicles out to sea over the weekend in a resumption of waterborne and well-deck operations with Navy ships, ending a five-month pause after problems arose with ...

An Anchorage-based nonprofit has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Navy for suddenly canceling a $5 million federal grant that ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, ... The Navy’s version says tribal members forced the vessel to shore, possibly took hostages and, ...

Anchorage, Alaska AP — ... The Navy’s version says tribal members forced the vessel to shore, possibly took hostages and, in accordance with their customs, demanded 200 blankets in compensation.

On one occasion our vessel’s propulsion lost all power in the middle of San Diego Bay and we were saved from grounding in the city’s downtown only by an emergency anchorage. The Coronado, along with ...

A member of the US Navy sprinkles tobacco on top of a killer whale clan hat, which is considered to bring good fortune, during a Navy ceremony Saturday, October 26, 2024, in Angoon, Alaska, to ...