In Alaska, fishers struggle to keep orcas from their catch

UNALASKA, Alaska — The orca pod that forages in the waters just north of this Aleutian island are quick to swarm any halibut ...
Alaska Public Media

Alaska advocates for climate-vulnerable villages call for action in wake of devastating storm

According to a recent story from the Northern Journal, an estimate from 2020 put the cost of protecting infrastructure in ...
In These Times

As Storms Displace Thousands in Rural Alaska, Federal Cuts Put Even More Communities in Peril

Warming seas, driven by climate change, are strengthening storms like the ones that ravaged Alaska Native communities along the state’s western coast in October.
Alaska Public Media

Alaska station that covered devastating storm cuts jobs

A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding ...
NBC New York

Melting glacier creates a new island in Alaska, satellite images show

A melting glacier in southeastern Alaska has birthed a brand-new island in the middle of a growing lake, according to recent images captured by NASA satellites. The 2-square-mile island is a small ...

Crews are working to fix Alaska Native villages devastated by flooding. But will residents return?

KWIGILLINGOK, Alaska (AP) — Darrel John watched the final evacuees depart his village on the western coast of Alaska in ...

Trump Administration Revokes Biden Ban on Drilling and Mining in Alaska Wilderness

The decision to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s ecologically sensitive North Slope has the support of the state’s ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Letter: The Trump administration canceled Alaska village climate grants. The need was clear before Typhoon Halong — and will remain in the future.

It has been with utter despair and abject fury that I have watched the disaster of Typhoon Halong sweep through Western Alaska. Several members of the American Federation of Government Employees Local ...