A wildfire north of Beaver Creek, Yukon, has prompted a warning to residents of the community, as well as parts of the ...

The Yukon River covers a lot of ground on its nearly 2,000 mile journey to the sea. Its headwaters are in the mountains of northern British Columbia, just 50 miles from Skagway.

Amid an unprecedented collapse in Alaska Yukon River salmon, no one can say for certain why there are so few fish Last of three parts: For both summer and fall chum, around one-tenth of the normal ...

Gwichyaa Zhee is the Gwich’in name for Fort Yukon. The village sits on the upper Yukon River, 150 miles northeast of Fairbanks. It’s home to less than 500 mostly Gwich’in Athabascan people ...

Alaska and the Yukon from March to October. Read his blog updates here. The Alaskan wilderness has brought me to tears twice on this trip, both times while talking on the phone with my mother from ...

Researchers at CU Boulder’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) have been awarded $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the changing climate and ...

For the second year running, Yukon River chinook salmon seem to be climbing out of an abundance pit.The river is home to a bulk of Alaska’s subsistence ...

Alaska organizers of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race say they are ending their partnership with their Canadian counterparts over a proposal to require longer mandatory rest periods, ...

The nearly 2,000-mile-long Yukon River starts in British Columbia and drains an area larger than Texas in both Canada and Alaska as it cuts through the lands of Athabascan, Yup’ik and other tribes.

The Yukon Quest 200 and 350 kicked off Feb. 5 in downtown Fairbanks on the Chena River. The race is back in 2023, with the boards of the Canadian race and Alaska race announcing routes.