Alaska Native Heritage Center opens first installment of its new boarding school exhibit

The Alaska Native Heritage Center has become one of the main organizations researching the impact of government and religious schools on Native childr...

There's No Place Like Nome - Arctic Shipping Series from the Koahnic Climate Desk

Residents wonder if a proposed port expansion will help or hinder efforts to address chronic social problems.

Jingle Dress Project to bring healing artform to Southeast Alaska

A group from the Lower 48 plans to share an Indigenous artform and advocate for physical, spiritual and cultural healing in Alaska. The effort is call...

Graduate student researches Ketchikan totem poles for thesis about museum decolonization

A graduate student from Colorado is spending the summer in Ketchikan researching the totem poles at the community’s Totem Heritage Center. It’s part o...

Gulf of Alaska sea floor subject of new study on the impacts of bottom trawling

Rent is increasing rapidly in Anchorage, and experts say the trend will continue

For renters like Ann Dougherty, finding an affordable place to live has been difficult. “One bed, one bath, $1525. Let’s see if it’s got the square fo...

In Japan, marketers spawn new strategies to sell herring eggs

Herring season wrapped up earlier this spring in Sitka Sound with the largest commercial harvest in the history of the Sac Roe fishery. Herring manage...

Video app connects Wrangell students to classrooms worldwide

A fifth-grader with a swoop of dark hair over one eye stands on the pebbly beach at Wrangell’s City Park, looking into the camera.

Alaska parents look desperately for baby formula as nationwide shortage persists

In January, Lottie Connelly got a call from her babysitter. They were out of formula, and her 10-month-old baby girl, Sloane, was hungry. On her way h...

Law professors slam court ruling that would allow life-saving road through Izembek refuge

A group of law professors wants the U.S. Ninth Circuit to reconsider a split decision from March that would allow a land swap. The swap would create a...

British Columbia officials reject proposed Morrison Lake mine for the second time

British Columbia officials rejected a proposed open-pit mine for the second time. In 2003, Vancouver-based Pacific Booker Minerals began the easement...

Supreme Court to hear ICWA challenge

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday, February 28, that it will hear several cases challenging the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Ac...

Alaska Board of Game will consider a change to beaver trapping rules

Originally put in place in the 1970s during peak beaver trapping, a regulation that requires submerged traps was both meant to prevent over-trapping o...

Nearly 30-year-old Violence Against Women Act reauthorized in the signing of an omnibus funding package

On Tuesday, March 15, 2022, President Joe Biden signed an omnibus spending package for fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act) into...

Some Alaska Native Elders must choose between keeping their corporation shares or accepting federal assistance. New legislation would change that.

Some Alaska Native Elders must make the tough choice of whether to give their Native corporation shares away to be eligible for federal programs like...

A Tribe wants to extinguish cloud on title to land in eastern Illinois for its day in court

Law professors slam court ruling that would allow life-saving road through Izembek refuge

A group of law professors wants the U.S. Ninth Circuit to reconsider a split decision from March that would allow a land swap. The swap would create a...

National and Alaska tribal health leader Sally Smith dies

By Joaqlin Estus, KNBA

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KNBA News - Alaskans travel to support Standing Rock Sioux in fight to protect drinking water

By Joaqlin Estus, KNBA