Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 7—This month, state officials voted unanimously to change the names of a creek and a hill on an Aleutian island in response ...

A small creek on Alaska’s Little Kiska Island has been renamed, more than 80 years after it was named after Germany’s Nazi Party by World War II soldiers fighting in the Aleutians. Nazi Creek was the ...

This summer, with Fort Lewis College alumni and a current FLC history student, seven of us canoed Birch Creek, which is one of Alaska’s wild and scenic rivers east of Fairbanks. We paddled for 6½ days ...

Little Kiska Island, at the far western end of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, is a remote speck of land that was heavily contested during World War II. In an attack possibly timed to draw away U.S.

A little-known creek in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska had been officially named “Nazi Creek” for 80 years — until recently. Following a campaign by a local advocate, the creek was given a new name in ...

Alaska officials have voted unanimously to change the names of a creek and a hill on an Aleutian island in response to proposals arguing they were offensive and arbitrary. The features in question are ...