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People arrived in North and South America in three distinct waves instead of one, with most modern Native Americans descending

Heart-wrenching rates of Alaska Native children witness domestic or sexual violence, and many are victims themselves, troubling facts that mean

Another four schools in rural Alaska have become the latest casualties of shrinking villages: Their doors will shut next school

Let’s call it the polar express. The multi-year ice floes that once dominated the Arctic Ocean have been shrinking fast

Twenty American Indian and Alaska Native companies receiving special benefits under a controversial federal contracting program returned more than $100

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series examining a 2011 climbing expedition gone awry on North America’s

Editor’s note: The first of a two-part series on the 2011 climbing expedition gone awry on North America’s tallest mountain.

What local health care officials are calling a rare wave of suicides has left several Southwest Alaska villages reeling in

Veterans health care will come to rural Alaska thanks to an unprecedented accord between the Department of Veterans Affairs and

Fearing a frenzy, an outreach campaign off the hopeful shores of Nome begins in five weeks, when the US Coast

With spring bowhead whaling season in full swing, at least five Alaska communities are distributing and celebrating their behemoth harvests,

LITTLE DIOMEDE, Alaska – Build it and they will come. Don’t and they will pass by. This is the trendy,

Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of a series examining the sequence of events during last summer’s unprecedented grizzly attack

Aging Interior Alaska resident Jim Wilde learned well in the autumn of 2010 the danger of failing to register a

Editor’s Note: This is a two-part series examining the sequence of events during last summer’s unprecedented grizzly attack on seven