The more than 30,000 soldiers, airmen and civilians at the base have learned to share the natural space surrounding the nearly 65,000-acre base with moose, elk, and other wildlife of central Alaska. But the interlopers who get the most attention at Elmendorf-Richardson are the bears.

Spc. George Cornejo has been formally charged in the death of Spc. Andrew Patrick Smith at the Fort Irwin National Training Center in California. Smith died Oct. 28 after military police found him injured at his on-base residence, and Cornejo was detained the following day as part of the investigation.

The uniforms of sailors have spawned civilian fashion trends still popular today, from white t-shirts to dungarees. The journey from the high seas to cultural icons is told in a new exhibit at the Puget Sound Navy Museum in Bremerton, Wash.

The U.S. Coast Guard plans to hire a commercial icebreaker to serve in the Arctic while waiting for the next generation of its cutters to be built in the next several years, service officials told lawmakers.

Sgt. Joelle Pamplona, a 29-year-old physical therapist, was on a private trip to Hawaii. Pamplona and two unidentified friends went snorkeling in an area with signs that warned visitors not to go into the ocean.

Staff Sgt. Bryan Rocky Tomaszewski, an Army recruiter who deployed to Afghanistan and served as a sniper in Europe, died last month in a motorcycle crash in suburban Seattle while on his way home to have lunch with his wife and young daughter, according to Army and police reports.

An ocean liner built for a double life as a secret Cold War transport ship for troops will become the world’s largest artificial reef on the ocean floor on the Gulf Coast, according to plans from tourism officials in Okaloosa County, Fla.

Search crews have located the wreckage of an EA-18G Growler jet that crashed near Mount Rainier, Navy officials said Wednesday.

The Navy has not found the wreckage or crew of an EA-18G Growler jet that crashed on the east side of Mount Rainier, service officials said Wednesday.

The United States and its allies in the Arctic need to increase the number of sensors, patrols and intelligence sharing in the region to contain the expansion of Russian and Chinese forces in the far north, defense leaders said at a meeting this week.