In one tiny city in Alaska, hunters are working to provide the local elderly population with access to traditional foods. By making that effort, they have become a model for a person-centered approach to care.
Through a cycle of eight plays, Canadian playwright Chantal Bilodeau explores the inner lives of the Arctic's inhabitants during a time of dramatic change.
The DOE's new programs will also support improvement in English proficiency.
A recent EPA survey takes into account extreme weather, but also social factors such as poverty, health, and governance.
Scientists are studying the stomachs of Alaskan seabirds to discover the extent to which plastic pollution is impacting wildlife and human populations in the Aleutian Islands.
The department is planning to re-adjust its regional boundaries and revamp its organization system in 2018, starting with a pilot management office in Alaska.
In Alaska, a point-based system will replace cash for determining who the state will release on bail.
High above the Arctic Circle, on a slab of sea ice a mile from shore, an Inupiaq whaling crew watches for a passing bowhead whale under the light of the midnight sun.
The LEO Network is bringing together scientists and citizens to monitor climate change and spot trends.
The appropriations bill asks the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for an extra billion dollars in new revenue, which could come from oil reserves beneath the refuge.
One Juneau-based nonprofit has decided to give it a try.
Two writers with roots in Alaska talk landscape, identity, survival, and the problem with the term alpha male.
George Frese, Kevin Pease, Marvin Roberts, and Eugene Vent — better known as the Fairbanks Four—spent 18 years in prison for a murder they didn’t commit. On the anniversary of the crime, a look at how their incarceration exposed the deep racial divides within the local community.
A study of ancient inhabitants of Sanak Island, Alaska, points to a new understanding of our impact on the natural world.
As warmer summers melt the Arctic, Pacific walruses have to work a lot harder to reach their seafloor feasts.
Alaska's capital city is surrounded by ocean and glaciers, with no roads in or out. Waste management? It's complicated.
In the Northwest Territories, remote towns depend on their frozen highways.
Experts say climate change will be a growing driver of global migration like the Syrian exodus into Europe.
The oil giant announced that there simply isn't enough oil and natural gas to warrant any more drilling.
In 1989 in Fairbanks, Alaska, Byran Perotti killed Johnny Jackson in cold blood. The community's silence around the murder compounded the shock of the crime itself.
Drilling in the Arctic has just begun, but when it comes to the science of safety, it turns out there are still a lot of unknowns.
A should-do list for the president's three-day trip to Alaska.
Unusually large wildfires can cause problems for everybody.
The best books about the Northern wilderness and our place in it.