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 ...

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 ...

Alaska Native leaders met with Biden administration officials in Washington this week, but they say Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has ignored or rejected their meeting requests at least eight times.

This law waives the requirement under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act for the Cape Fox Village Corporation to receive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alaska STEM students Three decades ago, Herb Schroeder was working as a professor and engineer for the University of Alaska, ...

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 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 ...

YAKUTAT, ALASKA (HawaiiNewsNow) - This isolated town welcomed Hokulea to its shores during the voyaging canoe’s “heritage sail,” in preparation for a dangerous, four-year trek in the Pacific. It was ...

The Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program has removed the phrase “Alaska Native” from its website. The award-winning University of Alaska program is now referred to only as its acronym, ANSEP.

Alaska, known for its scale, its beauty and its wildly epic landscapes, is often imagined through images of glaciers, whales, soaring eagles, towering mountains and vast wilderness — earning a place ...