A small Native community in the remote North Slope borough of Alaska has been at the center of debates in Washington, D.C., ...

Federal officials changed the names of two natural features in Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Thursday, replacing arbitrary and ...

The challenges facing Alaska Native villages have been growing for decades. As far back as the 1980s there were warnings that dozens of communities were in danger from erosion and flooding.

When remnants of Typhoon Merbok hit the Alaska Native village of Hooper Bay in 2022, the impact was immediate and — for this roughly 1,400-person town on the edge of the Bering Sea — disastrous.

Premieres Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Alaska Native villages fighting for survival against climate change. With the Howard Center at ASU, why communities are ...

The U.S. Navy issued an apology last month for destroying the nearby village of Kake in 1869, and the Army has indicated that it plans to apologize for shelling Wrangell, also in southeast Alaska ...

KAKTOVIK, Alaska — This past summer, George Kaleak, a whaling captain in the tiny Alaska Native village of Kaktovik, pinned a flyer to the blue, ribbon-lined bulletin board in the community center.

This Alaska Native fishing village was trying to power their town. ... diesel costs almost four times the national average — the Alaska Native community spent $900,000 on fuel in 2024 alone.

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13.

KAKTOVIK, Alaska — This past summer, George Kaleak, a whaling captain in the tiny Alaska Native village of Kaktovik, pinned a flyer to the blue, ribbon-lined bulletin board in the community center.