The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is awarding more than $6.6 million to federally recognized Native American and ...

Supporters of the Donlin Gold project often frame it as a matter of Alaska Native self-determination and fiduciary ...

For much of his life, Clarence "Butch" Laiti was a tireless advocate for Alaska Native fishing rights and sovereignty. He ...

WASHINGTON — An Alaska land-grant program allotting free wilderness tracts in the far reaches of the state to qualifying Alaska Native Vietnam-era veterans and their heirs passed the Senate on Tuesday ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Two brown bears look for salmon at Brooks Falls in ...

It’s been a decade since the federal government last updated the management plan for the region, which covers roughly 80 per cent of the Alaska panhandle. Now, the U.S. Forest Service has launched ...

Inmates at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in 2018. (Will Mader/KTOO) A national prison research group that tracks inmate populations says American Indians and Alaska Natives, next to Black people ...

A late amendment to a bill nearing final passage in t Capitol would exempt some Alaska Native village corporations from ...

At a moment when global energy markets are anything but predictable, it’s increasingly clear that Alaska’s role in America’s ...

In 1979, Fairbanks Army veteran Darrell Frank packed his bags for a deployment to Iran that never came. He was part of the ...

In the early spring of 1942, when the Army Corps of Engineers arrived to begin building the Alaska Highway, Alaska's population was approximately 73,000. About half of those residents were Native ...