Apr. 9—Later this spring, barges of heavy equipment will pull away from a launch on Alaska's road system and begin a journey up the Yukon River. More than 100 miles upstream, a tributary, Birch Creek, ...

Josi Shelley is leading the Yukon Quest 750 race as it moves onto the flat expanse of the Yukon River. Shelley left Circle ...

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 the ...

Serena Fitka sat in the cabin of a flat-bottomed aluminum boat as it sped down the Yukon River in western Alaska, recalling how the river once ran thick with salmon. Each summer, in the Yup’ik village ...

Frontrunner Josi Shelley said her team of 12 sailed along the Yukon River, but the extreme temperatures were wearing on her.

Search efforts continued Tuesday for an Interior Alaska man reported overdue on the Yukon River last weekend, Alaska State Troopers said. Robert Peter, 46, left Circle around 2 p.m. Friday in a ...

Salmon runs on the Yukon River continued to be anemic this year, federal and state agencies reported, and there are far too few fish reaching Canada to meet goals set in a treaty between that nation ...

I got the heads-up call the second week of February from Doug in Bethel. The next week was forecast for colder weather and snow. The plan was to go hunting for moose or muskox on sno-gos (the local ...

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Civil War veteran Charles Raymond was 27 when he accepted an assignment to visit the new U.S. territory of Alaska, a place so far away from his home in New York City he couldn’t imagine it. Two years ...