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Several organizations are asking for donations or contributing fundraiser proceeds to help residents affected by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.
Iñupiat Community of the Arctic Slope is also implementing its own emergency alert system, which is similar to the Amber alert system. It sends out warnings and messages to residents when they are in the range of a natural disaster, need to shelter in place or are on a boil water notice.
As floodwaters tore through coastal villages across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Sunday (Oct. 12), residents fled to higher ground while emergency responders launched evacuation and relief efforts. By Monday,
In a place where mountains are the only skyscrapers and the road to get home can’t be found on GPS, you’ll find the tribal ways that have survived for thousands of years. “We don't have to go to the local market. We'd go out in the woods, and ...
Immigration-related arrests in Alaska have more than quadrupled under the Trump administration and one lawyer says he expects the numbers will only increase.
The U.S. Department of the Interior withdrew a legal opinion last week that gave Tlingit and Haida — and other tribes in Alaska — legal jurisdiction over Alaska Native allotments.
The bill has the support of the Alaska Federation of Natives, World Wildlife Fund and Eskimo Walrus Commission, plus various Alaska Native groups and corporations.
Two southwest Alaska tribal governments are fighting to prevent foster children from being held at Anchorage, Alaska-based North Star Behavioral Health Center for indefinite periods of time, according to Alaska Dispatch News. The tribes, represented by ...
This story was originally published by Grist and Alaska Public Media. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The Kigluaik Mountains stretch across the Seward Peninsula of western Alaska like a spine,