Every generation of MacKenzie Englishoe’s family has fished on this river. And now it’s her turn, and she can’t.
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Four years into the Yukon salmon collapse, an Interior Alaska village wonders if it will ever fish again
The river’s once-strong king salmon run has been on a long, slow decline since the 1990s. Chum salmon runs have also been unpredictable. But in the last four years, both species’ runs abruptly crashed.
What’s going on with flooding in Alaska? A meteorologist explains
It’s been a dynamic breakup so far, after a cool April and rapid mid-May warmup.
Alaska Congressman Don Young has died
Alaska Congressman Don Young, the most senior member of the U.S. House, has died at 88. He often said he would stay in office until the Alaska voters or God decided otherwise.
For Gwich’in artist Colleen Firmin Thomas, abstract painting helps ‘to process the world’
Her work intertwines traditional painting methods with porcupine quills, fur and feathers to showcase different intricacies in nature, the life around her and her own life experiences.
Yukon mushers struggle to find food after poor salmon runs
Weak salmon runs this year compelled Fish and Game to halt subsistence fishing entirely in some parts of the Yukon River — leaving many mushers without their main source of dog food.