The federal government in December gave up its claim to ownership of the section of the Fortymile River in Alaska's eastern ...

One of the many fresh and unexpected stories in the recent Ken Burns PBS series on the American Revolution was the account of ...

According to a notice published Dec. 15 in the Federal Register, the Interior Department is conducting “a targeted review” of ...

The solicitor general told the Supreme Court there was no reason to again take up litigation over subsistence fishing in Alaska. The Trump administration is now siding with Alaskan Natives and ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. When salmon all but vanished from western Alaska in 2021, thousands of people ...

Nick Katelnikoff learned to fish from his father, and he says his first paycheck as a fisherman came when he turned 8 years old. Now 76, pictured aboard his boat, the MZ L, he’s the last skipper ...

For the fewer than a hundred people that make up the entire population of Port Heiden, Alaska, fishing provides both a paycheck and a full dinner plate. Every summer, residents of the Alutiiq village ...

Safari Club leaders and Alaska Native subsistence advocates have long been at odds over rights to hunt and fish in Alaska.

There is no more salmon. That's what native Alaskan Ricko DeWilde is most concerned with these days. The cast member and segment producer on National Geographic's, "Life Below Zero: First Alaskans," ...

A legal fight is ramping up over who should manage Alaska's dwindling salmon populations—and who gets access to them. By Max Graham/Grist Published Dec 25, 2023 11:00 AM EST This story was originally ...

This story was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship and the Public Media Accountability Initiative, which supports investigative reporting at local media outlets around ...