Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. (Kristine Sowl photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) (CN) — Three Alaska Native villages and a national conservation organization filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the ...

On a blustery Saturday in Kake, more than 200 residents and guests greet each other while slowly filling the community hall in the remote Southeast Alaska Native village. They soon settle into chairs ...

A late amendment to a bill nearing final passage in the Alaska Capitol would exempt some Alaska Native village corporations ...

The Yup’ik village of Newtok, perched precariously on thawing permafrost at the edge of the rapidly eroding Ninglick River, is the first Alaska community to begin a full-scale relocation made ...

Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the following months that ...

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On July 9, 2025, the President signed into law the Alaska Native Village Municipal Lands Restoration Act of 2025 (“ANVMLRA”). This legislation will permit Alaska Native Village Corporations to recover ...

Jeff Brady is a correspondent on NPR's Climate Desk. His reporting focuses on decisions people and governments make that will determine whether and how the U.S. addresses the urgency and consequences ...

Nearly a month after a fire destroyed the only source of potable water for the entire Alaska Native village of Tuluksak, residents there continue to rely entirely on bottled water and plead for help.

The Department of the Interior under the Biden administration is providing three Native American tribes $75 million to relocate from coastal areas at risk of destruction, a decision that comes after ...

The last Native American village in Yosemite Valley, destroyed 40 years ago, is being rebuilt in the same spot so that Miwuk Indian youths can learn about their culture. Bill Tucker, who is Miwuk and ...

Two Native villages in Alaska and a Native village in Washington state will receive $25 million each in federal assistance to help relocate to higher ground in the face of climate-change-driven ...