The Eskay Creek project is one of several prospective mines near the British Columbia-Alaska border, where the government and ...

Michael Livingston, an Alaska Native veteran’s advocate, has volunteered to help vets like Jim LaBelle apply. “ It’s not a user-friendly process,” he said. “Out of the 2000-some veterans that are ...

When Forest Rose Walker was growing up in Buckland, a small icebound town of 500 near Alaska’s Seward Peninsula, she was put in the corner for being a good student. “In high school, my brother, ...

Roswell Schaeffer Sr. has had many lives in Kotzebue, Alaska, a coastal town of about 3,000 just north of the Arctic Circle. He’s been a commercial fisherman, a subsistence hunter and holder of just ...

Among the losses suffered by Western Alaska victims of ex-Typhoon Halong — destroyed four-wheelers, houses and lives — the destruction of the traditional foods they’d gathered for the winter is among ...