Donlin Gold says the FAST-41 designation will not accelerate the mine’s timeline nor allow it to skip required steps. Environmental and tribal groups have raised concerns.

During the storm, wind speeds on the island reached 100 miles per hour and caused massive flooding of low-lying areas, floating homes off their foundations in Nightmute and destroying the subsistence site known as Umkumiut.

Climate change forces combine to make the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta especially vulnerable, threatening a region that has sustained Indigenous people for millennia.

Hundreds have left their homes. Many may never go back. KYUK collaborator Nat Herz takes stock of what comes next after ex-typhoon Halong.

A new tech trial on the Salmon-Aniak River involves camera imaging and eventually, AI software.

Fish counters show 2025 returns have again failed to meet the lower target for king salmon returns after missing the goal in 2024 as well.

After making do with makeshift classrooms as the Kuskowkim River encroached on their old school, Napakiak students are back to school under one new roof.

A newly updated learning space aims to grow the potential of a Bethel-based nursing education program.

For the first time in years, students in Napakiak are at school under the same roof, in a school building that’s safe from the encroaching erosion of the Kuskokwim River.

A young Alaska Native engineer with roots in Kongiganak has been appointed as a Youth Climate advisor to the United Nations.