ANCHORAGE — Alaska-Miners were pulling gold out of eastern Alaska even before the thousands of fortune hunters rushed north to the Klondike gold fields next door in Canada’s Yukon Territory. But more ...

The idea of building a road to connect the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers has been studied for decades, but a new program spearheaded by the state transportation department could finally make the link ...

Yoshitsugu Kobayashi (far left), Gilbert Huntington (second left), Tony Fiorillo (center) and Paul McCarthy (seated) look over a geologic map of Alaska to figure out where the best opportunity to find ...

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 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 ...

Photograph by Michael Christopher Brown. See the story, photos, and map in the March issue of National Geographic Magazine. I certainly have a much better understanding of true wilderness, due in ...

Tales from the Klondike (1898) -- The great river of Alaska (1885) -- Eskimo whaling (1891) -- Hunting the big game of Alaska (1902) -- The Indian hunter of the far northwest (1902) -- Alaskan notes ...

STEVENS VILLAGE, Alaska (AP) -- In a normal year, the smokehouses and drying racks that Alaska Natives use to prepare salmon to tide them through the winter would be heavy with fish meat, the fruits ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. STEVENS VILLAGE, Alaska (AP) — In a normal ...