The Kigluaik Mountains stretch across the Seward Peninsula of western Alaska like a spine, their jagged ridges keeping a ...

June 28 (Reuters) - Large areas of federal land in Alaska will be protected from development to conserve fish and wildlife habitats that are important to native communities' way of life, under two ...

Federal legislation is needed to speed up the process of confirming the state’s ownership of navigable waters and submerged ...

Kootink Heather Douville of Craig teaches workshop participants how to skin a sea otter at the Elders and Youth Conference in Anchorage, Oct. 15. The workshop was hosted by the Central Council of ...

STEVENS VILLAGE, Alaska (AP) — In a normal year, the smokehouses and drying racks that Alaska Natives use to prepare salmon to tide them through the winter would be heavy with fish meat, the fruits of ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service is considering adding three people nominated by tribal governments to a key subsistence hunting board. Alaska Natives appear poised to gain a greater say in managing ...

Traditionally, throughout many Indigenous coastal communities in Western Alaska, when a young family member hunts their first seal of the season, their family hosts a party to distribute that fresh ...

The National Park Service (NPS) announced it has banned hunters from baiting bears in Alaska. The ban, effective from July 2024, applies to sport hunters targeting black and brown bears on National ...

In late summer, Alaska’s tundra is littered with little round dark purple berries the size of pencil erasers. In the Cup’ik dialect, they’re known as kavlakuaraq. Botanists call them Empetrum nigrum.