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Native Alaska villages were already on the frontlines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit.

A week after Typhoon Halong passed through Japan in early October, its remnants crossed the Pacific and struck western Alaska ...

Cut off from their jobs at home, Alaska typhoon evacuees have alternative income options

For wage-earning Alaskans who were displaced by the remnants of Typhoon Halong, a powerful storm that lashed the western ...
KYUK

Alaska typhoon victims’ losses of traditional foods go beyond dollar values

A statewide effort to replace lost subsistence harvests is part of the system of aid that organizations are trying to tailor ...
Alaska Public Media

Dunleavy makes first official Yukon visit, signs Alaska Highway maintenance agreement

Gov. Mike Dunleavy and the Premier of the Yukon Ranj Pillai, pose for a photo in the Cabinet office during a visit to Whitehorse on Thursday, February 8, 2024. (Photo by Justin Kennedy/Government of ...
Juneau Empire

Yukon and Alaska will share data on gender-based violence against Indigenous people

The governments of Yukon and Alaska signed a cross-border agreement in Whitehorse on Aug. 12 to formalize commitments from both governments to improving safety for Indigenous women and non-binary ...

He hitchhiked from NY to Alaska, then fell in love with Big Cypress National Preserve

Old-school hitchiker and rail-rider, Matthew Schwartz found his way to the Yukon for his 18th birthday. Now he's fighting ...
Alaska Public Media

Yukon Quest Alaska to hold 300-mile sled dog race as rift with Canada continues

Jennifer LaBar heads off on the 300-mile Yukon Quest. LaBar scratched from the race in Central. (Lex Treinen/KUAC) The Yukon Quest Alaska has revised its 2024 race plan. The organization has decided ...
Amazon S3 on MSN

Above the North: Exploring Yukon's Wild Horizons...

This is the Lapie River, slicing through the heart of the Yukon. Glacial blue water twists between steep canyon cliffs, ...
The Spokesman-Review

Dwindling Alaska salmon leave Yukon River tribes in crisis

STEVENS VILLAGE, Alaska – In a normal year, the smokehouses and drying racks that Alaska Natives use to prepare salmon to tide them through the winter would be heavy with fish meat, the fruits of a ...
Los Angeles Times

Alaska’s vanishing salmon push Yukon River tribes to brink

STEVENS VILLAGE, Alaska — In a normal year, the smokehouses and drying racks that Alaska Natives use to prepare salmon to tide them through the winter would be heavy with fish meat, the fruits of a ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Amid an unprecedented collapse in Alaska Yukon River salmon, no one can say for certain why there are so few fish

Last in a three-part series. These stories were made possible in part with a grant from the Pulitzer Center’s Connected Coastlines initiative. Read parts one and two. EMMONAK — A single slick silver ...