In the early spring of 1942, when the Army Corps of Engineers arrived to begin building the Alaska Highway, Alaska's population was approximately 73,000. About half of those residents were Native ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alaska STEM students Three decades ago, Herb Schroeder was working as a professor and engineer for the University of Alaska, ...

WASHINGTON — An Alaska land-grant program allotting free wilderness tracts in the far reaches of the state to qualifying Alaska Native Vietnam-era veterans and their heirs passed the Senate on Tuesday ...

A late amendment to a bill nearing final passage in t Capitol would exempt some Alaska Native village corporations from public financial disclosures required by state law ...

The federal government is rewriting the rules for how it issues federal contracts. Some Alaska Native organizations — which depend on federal contracts to pay benefits to shareholders — say the ...

Julie Kitka, president of the Alaska Federation of Natives, at a June 28, 2022, news conference held by Gov. Mike Dunleavy. Members of Alaska's congressional delegation have nominated her to be the ...

Alaska Native leaders met with Biden administration officials in Washington this week, but they say Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has ignored or rejected their meeting requests at least eight times.

Each year, the Alaska Federation of Natives honors standouts in a variety of fields, including, education, health and public safety. Here are this year's awards, with summaries of each winner based on ...