Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Subsistence cabins are seen dotting the horizon on the other side of Safety Sound near Nome on Sept. 30, 2020. The sound is an ...

A western Alaska tribal consortium has appealed a key permit for a proposed gold dredging project in waters near Nome. Kawerak, a nonprofit that serves some 20 Iñupiaq and Yup’ik tribes in the Bering ...

(CN) — Three Alaska Native tribes are challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ recent approval of a gold mining project that would bring industrial suction dredging — a mining technique used to ...

The Kigluaik Mountains stretch across the Seward Peninsula of western Alaska like a spine, their jagged ridges keeping a record of time. The Inupiaq have long read these ridges and valleys as a living ...

A pair of employees with a nonprofit tribal health organization were among the 10 people killed in a harrowing plane crash off the western coast of Alaska this week. Rhone Baumgartner and Kameron ...

Three Alaska Native tribes have filed a lawsuit to overturn the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit granted to a company seeking to dredge for gold in a sensitive wetland area near Nome. The tribes, ...

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Alaska Public Media. The Kigluaik Mountains stretch across the Seward Peninsula of western Alaska like a spine, their jagged ridges keeping a ...