Federal officials changed the names of two natural features in Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Thursday, replacing arbitrary and offensive World War II-era place names with ones that honor the native ...

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.

This month, state officials 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 ...