For generations, Alaska Native people along the Yukon river have depended on a steady supply of salmon for a healthy source of protein to sustain them through the long winter. But king and chum ...

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 ...

“I didn’t know what to fill my days with, and I could sense it was like that for everyone along the Yukon River.” There are five kinds of salmon in Alaska: Chinook, sockeye, chum, coho and pink.

KVICHAK RIVER, Alaska — A screaming east wind was punching up big surf waves half a mile out on Lake Iliamna and scraping the top surface off the sandy shoreline where the lake opened up and ...

Kenny Lake School in Copper Center, Alaska, is small, with about 60 students from kindergarten to high school seniors. It's even smaller in winter when some parents homeschool their children ...

Salmon are believed to have a relationship, direct or indirect, with more than 100 different species. In Alaska, brown bears famously fish for adult salmon as they swim upstream to spawn.

Chum salmon are important to the diets of Indigenous residents of Western Alaska. This year's run in the Kuskokwim River was better than those of the past two years, but scarcities remain a problem.