The next major U.S. national census is in 2030, but this year, the Census Bureau will conduct field tests to try to come up ...

With a deadly coronavirus epidemic creeping northward and the nearest hospital 230 miles away, Galen Gilbert, First Chief of Arctic Village, Alaska, knew his 200-person town could not afford to take ...

A couple who relocated from the suburbs of New England to live in a remote, off-grid homestead in Alaska have opened up about the extreme lengths they go to in order to survive the brutal winter ...

ADAK, Alaska (AP) — The roar of our rusty pickup truck rumbling down a dirt road on Alaska’s Adak Island is the only sound for miles besides the constant howling wind. Classic rock plays on the only ...

KWETHLUK, Alaska - The mere presence of Santa and Mrs. Claus put broad smiles on the faces of many children in this Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimo community this week, and it wasn't just because they were ...

Congress has passed a bill to exempt diesel generators in rural Alaska from an air quality rule that village utilities say was unworkable for them. The exemption, sponsored by Sen. Dan Sullivan, is ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — We’ve heard a lot over the past two years about the ways in which the shift to remote work and school really exposed the digital divide. Those who could easily connect to ...

NENANA -- This village of 600, an hour's drive outside of Alaska's northernmost city of Fairbanks, has long been dependent on the Tanana River. Along the banks, huge fish wheels use the river's flow ...

About as far west as you can go in the US before hitting Russia lies the string of Aleutian Islands. It's where the Discovery Channel's The Deadliest Catch is filmed and where most fish destined for ...

In this photo provided by NOAA Ocean Exploration, a lone sunstar rests among many brittle stars taken from the Okeanos Explorer off the coast of Alaska on July 24, 2023, while exploring the mounds and ...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The Alaska National Guard conducted Operation Santa Claus again this year, delivering gifts to children in remote Alaskan villages. Gifts were delivered to ...

The Siberian Yupik town of Gambell, Alaska, sits on the western edge of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than the Alaska mainland and two plane rides from Anchorage. Whale and ...