Alaska: Officials ban trailers for carrying dogs in Iditarod
Citing safety concerns, the Iditarod Board of Directors have ruled that Iditarod mushers will no longer be able to carry
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Tanker-truck crashes and spills an increasing worry on Alaska highways say regulators
Federal and state regulators in Alaska say they’re working to stem what has been a growing number of tanker-truck accidents in
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Cretaceous-era prints in Alaska park suggest newborn hadrosaurs walked on all fours
Did baby duck-billed dinosaurs walk on two limbs or four? Paleontologists have long wondered. Now information gleaned from tracks found
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Kotzebue brothers make first app for all 20 Alaska Native languages
When Barrow officially changes its name back to Utqiaġvik on December 1st, people all over are going to encounter the
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Alaska shop stocks poke and aloha spirit for relocated Hawaiians
When Tasha Kahele and her family moved to Alaska in November 2009 from Hawaii, it was sight unseen. Her father
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Blog: Five ways the Dakota access pipeline affects the Arctic
Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, North Dakota have erupted this past week. For months, members of the Standing Rock
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Ivory bans in contiguous U.S. hit Alaska Native carvers hard
Recent measures to curb elephant poaching in Africa are having unintended consequences in Alaska. This July, the U.S. Fish and
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Alaska: Co-owner of flightseeing business under attack for anti-Native remarks posted on Facebook
A pilot who is majority owner of a flightseeing business outside Denali National Park has enraged many in recent days
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Alaska Iñupiaq leaders hope Barrow’s name change to Utqiaġvik helps heal and teach
The new-old name for Barrow may take some practice to pronounce, and it’s time to start: Utqiaġvik won the nod
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Alaska: Mushers frustrated over cell phones on Iditarod trail
Mushers are expressing frustration over controversial rule changes the Iditarod made during a board meeting Friday. The race’s Trail Committee is
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‘Arctic gene’ that poses fasting risks is found in more infants thanks to DNA testing
Thousands of years of a diet with lots of animal fats and sparse carbohydrates left a mark on the DNA
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U.S. Interior Secretary announces inclusion of Native communities in land management
U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell addressed AFN on Friday. Jewell announced a new secretarial order that requires the Department to
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Improving water access in rural Alaska needs less studies, more action, says U.S. senator
U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan spoke at Alaska Federation of Natives last week about improving water and sewer access in rural Alaska
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Alaska Federation of Natives speaker calls for movement of Native power
FAIRBANKS – An up-and-coming Alaska Native leader called a new-to-Alaska legal mechanism for protecting tribal lands a colonial-era tool and
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An ‘elder in training’ teaches Alaska crowd how to butcher a seal
FAIRBANKS — She didn’t have her big ulu or her special slanted board but Marjorie “Kunaq” Tahbone smoothly sliced blubber
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