FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration and its allies have pushed aggressively for drilling, mining and logging in Alaska. This has intensified long-standing debate over ...
On a warm July afternoon near Fairbanks, a volunteer with the Alaska Bee Atlas kneels beside a patch of blooming fireweed, gently sweeping a net through the air. A small bumblebee lands in the bottom ...
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 ...
A procession of Alaska Native leaders from around the state took the stage Thursday to bid farewell to the longtime leader of the Alaska Federation of Natives on the opening day of the group’s ...
BETHEL, Alaska — Fish camps still dot the banks of the broad Kuskokwim River in southwestern Alaska. Wooden huts and tarped shelters stand beside drying racks draped with bright red strips of salmon, ...
A group of Alaska Native Dancers perform for tourists at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska Native Heritage Center ...
Marissa Russo is a former STAT intern supported by the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship. American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States live nearly four years less than ...