On a nearly deserted Alaska island, you pay to keep hundreds of empty buildings wired for internet

This story was originally published by ProPublica and Anchorage Daily News. On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from ...

Abandoned Navy base costs taxpayers $340,000 a year in internet nobody uses

Empty homes and buildings in a town built on an abandoned Navy base in Alaska receive tax-funded internet access.
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On nearly deserted Adak Island, you pay to keep hundreds of buildings wired for internet

U.S. phone customers pay more than $340,000 a year for an Anchorage company to keep homes and buildings on the Alaska island ...
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Alaska’s Great Sitkin volcano keeps oozing lava under an aviation alert

Great Sitkin volcano, a remote peak in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, has been slowly pushing lava into its summit crater for ...
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Is the US Losing the Race for the Arctic to Russia?

Russia's Arctic expansion includes a 42-icebreaker fleet and new military bases, widening a strategic gap with the US, which ...

75 mind-blowing facts you’ll think are made up (but aren’t)

Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries and the Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you ...

5 Weird Geography Facts That Rewrite What You Learned in School

In schools across the country, geography has often been folded into other subjects. Even so, the facts we learned about ...