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Air North, known for its hospitality, free hot meals, and warm cookies, launched the longest nonstop flight in its 48-year history.
Alaskans and Canadians are canceling their cross-border trips due to fear of being detained, but Canadian passengers aboard cruise ships are still arriving in Southeast Alaska. Jaime Bricker ...
Alaska reached statehood in 1959; the Yukon territorial legislature didn’t gain real authority over its affairs until 1979. We can learn and grow old together.
YQA 550 winner Jeff Deeter speaks to the audience in attendance at the 2025 Yukon Quest Alaska Finish and Awards Banquet.
He adds that by 2100, northern Alaska coastal communities will experience similar flood exposure. In the study, a map shows where in Alaska coastal communities face the prospect of severe flooding.
In early February, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy visited the Yukon to sign a memorandum of understanding. That memorandum pledged future collaboration, beginning with highway improvements.
In villages along the river, Tribal leaders say the state has cut them out of the process and they want federal oversight.
KLONDIKE MAPS ALL WRONG.; Lieut. Castner Fails to Find an All-American Route to the Yukon River. Feb. 20, 1899 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from February 20 ...
EAGLE VILLAGE, Alaska — When Jody Potts-Joseph was growing up, her family mushed sled dogs during the harsh Alaskan winters to hunt and trap, feeding them salmon caught from the Yukon River by ...
Salmon are vanishing from the Yukon River — and so is a way of life As waters warm, Alaska Native families confront a world without the fish that fed them for generations.
A 20-year-old treaty keeps Alaska and Canada working together, even through the devastating king and chum salmon collapse.
The Yukon Quest is not the Iditarod, and that’s its strength. It’s a smaller, rougher, salt of the Earth race, representative of Fairbanks and old school Alaska values — at least it used to be.