A federal judge in Anchorage has ruled that the U.S. Department of the Interior may take land into trust on behalf of Alaska Native tribes, a decision that could allow tribes to create “Indian country ...

Katie Church, an RN at Bartlett Regional Hospital, demonstrates putting on personal protective equipment to handle a patient infected with COVID-19 on Monday, April 7, 2020 in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo ...

Indian Country Today announced this week it’s opening an Alaska news bureau at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage. The online news site is one of the largest news organizations in the country ...

On Friday, in a lawsuit called Akiachak Native Community v. Department of the Interior, the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., cleared the way for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to begin taking ...

Five Alaska legislators talk about the way their state exists both within, and entirely apart from, national politics in the run up to next week’s presidential elections. Maxine Dibert is a State ...

A grassroots project to build biomass-heated greenhouses aims to alleviate food insecurity in the communities most affected by it. When Eva Dawn Burk first saw Calypso Farm and Ecology Center in 2019, ...

High Country News’ twice weekly email newsletter includes our latest on-the-ground reporting and investigations from across the West. Alaska is quite possibly the most evocative place-name in the ...

Look at the byline on this opinion piece, and you’ll see something rare in these divided times: A Democrat and a Republican writing together. But in Alaska, where we both serve in the Legislature, ...