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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 ...
Military.com

Alaska’s Largest Airlift Follows Typhoon Halong

The largest airlift in Alaska’s history followed Typhoon Halong’s devastating impact on the state’s western coast, where more ...
Anchorage Daily News

Anchorage assistance center opens for Western Alaska storm evacuees

The center, located in the Calista building in Midtown, will be open through mid-November, state officials said.
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 ...

Officials finish moving Western Alaska storm evacuees from Anchorage shelters into longer-term housing

All evacuees recently sent to mass shelters in Anchorage after a devastating Western Alaska storm forced them from their homes have been placed in longer-term, non-congregate housing, officials said ...

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

When natural disasters strike in the Lower 48, people affected are compensated for income lost from wage-earning jobs that have been interrupted, as well as lost assets with assigned financial value.
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 ...
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 ...
The Columbian

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 ...
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 ...