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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and Canada on Tuesday said they will create a task force this autumn to negotiate the maritime boundary in the Beaufort Sea and resolve the overlap along ...
From Alaska to Maine, all border states have seen an influx of migrants over the past two years, especially New York and the New England states, which border the heavily populated areas of ...
CBS News national security correspondent David Martin described the two unidentified objects shot down over Alaska and Canada as “balloon-like” and did not necessarily believe that they were ...
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May 2—Alaska towns along the Canadian border are bracing for a second summer of restrictions, but at least one business on the Alaska Highway is benefiting from continuing Canadian exceptions ...
The United States bought Alaska in 1867 from Russia in the Alaska Purchase, but the boundary terms were ambiguous. In 1871, British Columbia united with the new Dominion of Canada . The Canadian government requested a survey of the boundary, but the United States rejected it as too costly; the border area was very remote and sparsely settled ...
The Dixon Entrance (French: Entrée Dixon) is a strait about 80 kilometers (50 mi) long and wide in the Pacific Ocean at the Canada–United States border, between the U.S. state of Alaska and the province of British Columbia in Canada. The Dixon Entrance is part of the Inside Passage shipping route.
Canada and the United States have one land dispute over Machias Seal Island (off the coast of Maine), and four other maritime disputes in the Arctic and Pacific. The two countries share the longest international border in the world and have a long history of disputes about the border's demarcation (see Canada–United States border). [1]