Alaskan

The first people to live in the Americas migrated from Siberia across the Bering land bridge more than 20,000 years ago. Some made their way as far south as Tierra del Fuego, at the tip of…

Zoologists refer to manatees and dugongs as "sea cows" but a simple internet search might return the more playful moniker "floaty potatoes." Now, imagine a 24,000-pound version, twice the…

In the first instance, the surge in oil and gas prices that the war has fostered has tripled Santos’ first-half profit, providing the company with a massive cash-flow bonus with which to…

At the turn of the century, Edward Anton Rasmuson arrived on the Alaska frontier, a Swedish-born missionary there to teach Tlingit children at a time when many small villages did not have…

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While Aaron Osterback was hospitalized with Covid-19 and pneumonia in September, he leaned on the foods he grew up with, like salmon and cod, to help him recover. Mr. Osterback is Aleut and…

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Alaska on Wednesday blocked construction permits for an expansive oil drilling project on the state’s North Slope that was designed to produce more than…

TOKYO — Lydia Jacoby didn’t know what to do.The 17-year-old touched the pool wall, turned to check the scoreboard and a stunned look filled her face.Thundersticks clapped, vuvuzelas…

The Biden administration plans to restore environmental protections to Tongass National Forest in Alaska, one of the world’s largest intact temperate rain forests, that had been stripped…