Tara Sweeney, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior, visited Nome on Monday for an event called “Reclaiming Our Native Communities”: a roundtable ...

The members of the board that will set Alaska’s legislative districts for the next decade have been finalized. Melanie Bahnke, the president and CEO of Nome-based regional nonprofit Kawerak Inc ...

Melanie Bahnke, president of Kawerak Inc., a regional nonprofit corporation in the Bering Straits Region, and Ivy Bahnke, 6, watch a slideshow during the first day of AFN Convention at the Dena ...

Students from the University of Missouri collaborated for five months with the MU’s Museum of Anthropology and Kawerak Inc., a consortium of 20 Alaska Native Tribes, to put the museum’s first ...

Kawerak Inc., a regional non-profit corporation that provides social services to Alaska Native Villages along Alaska’s west coast, and the Bering Sea Elders Group in June urged Obama to give ...

Melanie Bahnke, president of the Kawerak tribal government in Nome, said that residents of villages outside the Western Alaska hub of Nome will need to pay over $1,000 for two flights to travel to ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Three Alaska nonprofit organizations have donated more than $38,000 to assist a police department with testing its backlog of sexual assault kits. The organizations ...

Here is a selection of organizations that help polar bears or fight climate change. One nonprofit, Kawerak, Inc., provides goods and services to the people of Wales, Alaska. The Oregonian ...

Membership on the Alaska Board of Fisheries would be restructured to guarantee representation for the state’s different fishing sectors, under a bill pending in the Legislature.