Alaska

The competition, which ended Tuesday, provided flashes of joy during this tumultuous news cycle.

• By Rebecca Worby

Seeing these crimes go unpunished can make indigenous communities feel hopeless. But in dark times, I take inspiration from our grandmothers.

• By Terese Marie Mailhot

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.

• By Charlee Catherine Dyroff

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.

• By Sophie Yeo

The DOE's new programs will also support improvement in English proficiency.

• By Elena Gooray

A recent EPA survey takes into account extreme weather, but also social factors such as poverty, health, and governance.

• By Sophie Yeo

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.

• By Yereth Rosen

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.

• By Candace Butera

In Alaska, a point-based system will replace cash for determining who the state will release on bail.

• By Morgan Baskin

Utqiagvik, Alaska: 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.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The LEO Network is bringing together scientists and citizens to monitor climate change and spot trends.

• By Benjamin Powers

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.

• By Kate Wheeling

One Juneau-based nonprofit has decided to give it a try.

• By Wesley Yiin

Two writers with roots in Alaska talk landscape, identity, survival, and the problem with the term alpha male.

• By Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes

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.

• By Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes

A study of ancient inhabitants of Sanak Island, Alaska, points to a new understanding of our impact on the natural world.

• By Nathan Collins

As warmer summers melt the Arctic, Pacific walruses have to work a lot harder to reach their seafloor feasts.

• By Jason Bittel

Alaska's capital city is surrounded by ocean and glaciers, with no roads in or out. Waste management? It's complicated.

• By Eva Holland

In the Northwest Territories, remote towns depend on their frozen highways.

• By Eva Holland

Experts say climate change will be a growing driver of global migration like the Syrian exodus into Europe.

• By Melissa Denchak

The oil giant announced that there simply isn't enough oil and natural gas to warrant any more drilling.

• By Madeleine Thomas

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.

• By Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes

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.

• By Madeleine Thomas

A should-do list for the president's three-day trip to Alaska.

• By Alisa Opar