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A series of court rulings Tuesday in the southwest Alaska community of Bethel offers a blueprint of how a highly

Outlaws or wrongfully accused? A group of Yupik men on trial for illegal salmon fishing during an emergency river closure

A few Alaska programs are hoping to get young people talking about sex in rural Alaska, where sexually transmitted disease

AT&T continues to beef up its Alaska mobile network, announcing this week that it’s bringing faster service to the Arctic

Attorney John Sky Starkey said out loud Thursday what Alaska Natives have known for decades, if not longer: “Other people

On a sunny, cool October afternoon in downtown Anchorage, nearly 200 Alaskans gathered on the city’s park strip to demand

Hundreds of Alaska Native youth and elders from all corners of Alaska are in Anchorage this week to share their

As the ease of communications creeps ever deeper into the wilds of Alaska, discussions about lives risked and money spent

How many folks think of food when they see a patch of devil’s club, or a cup of tea when

While Shell Oil searches for petroleum riches beneath the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska’s coastline, the fate of a remote

Eleven wind turbines that have altered the Anchorage landscape and will soon supplement Anchorage’s power supply are up and almost

When Heidi Hatcher decided to do an interview project documenting community involvement in trapping across rural Alaska, she figured she

GAMBELL, Alaska — Off the far western edge of the North American continent, nearly 1,500 people struggle in a daily

When Mark Leary loaded up his truck one day last winter in Bethel, Alaska, heavy with as much firewood as

Seventy-year-old mariner David Scott Cowper has seen it all. He’s circumnavigated the globe a mind-boggling six times, most recently in