After Congress opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling in 2017, the Kaktovik Iñupiat Corp. should have been poised for a new era of prosperity. Instead, its businesses were mired in ...

Kotzebue’s Iñupiaq immersion school is planning to relocate to a new building that will be more spacious and energy efficient, Native Village of Kotzebue officials said. Nikaitchuat Iḷisaġviat, an ...

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The U.S. Navy has formally apologized for obliterating an Alaska Native village in 1882, the second such apology this fall. Saturday’s gesture came on the 142nd anniversary of the destruction of the ...

KWIGILLINGOK, Alaska — When the remnants of Typhoon Halong arrived in the low-lying village of Kwigillingok, on Alaska's southwestern coast, late in the night on Oct. 11, Noah Andrew Sr. says the ...

Severe erosion of bank of the Ninglick River threatens Newtok homes, Photo: Romy Cadiente FEMA has awarded $6,768,114.23 for the Native Village of Newtok in Alaska as part of their efforts to relocate ...