When the base was active, there were about 6,000 residents on Adak Island. The 2020 census counted 171 residents. Lockett says that’s probably now down to below 50 full-time residents.

He said life on Adak island was challenging. Temperatures dipped as low at 40 degrees below. “At times, it was miserable. One example, we had a nice Christmas party.

When the base was active, there were about 6,000 residents on Adak Island. The 2020 Census counted 171 residents. Lockett says that’s probably now down to below 50 full-time residents.

The northern half of Adak Island has been used by the U.S. military going back to the 1940s. During WWII, when nearly 90,000 troops were mobilized to the Aleutian Islands, ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — On a desolate slab of island tundra in western Alaska, a resident of Adak will again become the last American to cast an in-person ballot for president, continuing a 12-year ...