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 the ...
Matt Hall's team approaches the finish of the 2022 Yukon Quest 350-mile race (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) Organizers had hoped to return the race to a portion of its traditional route on the ...
A section of the upper Yukon River flowing through the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve is seen on Sept. 10, 2012. (Photo provided by National Park Service) A cyanide spill at a major gold mine ...
Intrinsic to the Yukon River are skills shared and carefully honed among families, for generations. Nika Silverfox-Young, a citizen of the Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation in the Yukon, calls this ...
A few days ago, at the end of a summerlong journey in which he navigated nearly the entire Yukon River without a boat, Denis Morin was overcome by all he was and all he had been through. The ...
We just skied 100 miles of the frozen Yukon River, two friends and I, until it got too cold for our skis to glide, and we flew back to Fairbanks on a plane that landed on both skis and wheels. Though ...
Without salmon, Gwichyaa Zhee is missing its heart. “It’s just no good,” said Linda Englishoe, sitting on the sofa in her house not far from the Yukon River. An elder now, Englishoe has lived in the ...
Thru various entities I participate in, I get to talk to various people. Some might say some of these people are "important." I ask some of these people about Yukon ...
Serena Fitka sat in the cabin of a flat-bottomed aluminum boat as it sped down the Yukon River in western Alaska, recalling how the river once ran thick with salmon. Each summer, in the Yup’ik village ...
People in Ross River, Yukon, are running low on water and heating fuel as the community's trucks aren't able to run in –50 C ...
We just skied 100 miles of the frozen Yukon River, two friends and I, until it got too cold for our skis to glide, and we flew back to Fairbanks on a plane that landed on both skis and wheels. Though ...