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(NEW YORK) -- A U.S. Army soldier died after sustaining injuries in a bear attack Tuesday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. The soldier was part of

Kodiak resident and Coast Guard veteran Matt Bell started a job this week as the dean of the School of Arctic and Climate Studies in the Ted Stevens Center for

US Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Brendan Mullin The strategic importance of the Arctic is clear, as the US prepares for training exercises and China becomes more active in the Arctic region. "China, Russia, the US — Alaska is in the middle of all of it," former US intelligence officer says. Over the next two weeks, US armed forces will crawl through, drive over, fly above and shovel into Alaska's thawing tundra, training to defend this sparsely populated state from a power whose ambitions increasingly defy geography. Some 10,000 uniformed service members from the Arm...

news A more accessible Arctic becomes proving ground for US-China military jockeying Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen Over the next two weeks, US armed forces will crawl through, drive over, fly above and shovel into Alaska's thawing tundra, training to defend this sparsely populated state from a power whose ambitions increasingly defy geography. Some 10,000 uniformed service members from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines will participate in the Northern Edge training exercise aimed at countering China, Russia and other potential adversaries that threaten the Arctic frontier and broader Indo-Pa...