On the morning of Sunday, June 30, 2024, the air in the Arctic tundra was anything but arctic. It was a windless and muggy 72-degree day. Under the hazy blue sky, the crisp aroma of Labrador tea ...

It was near the headwaters of the Alatna River, according to the ethnographer Nicholas J. Gubser, that the Nunamiut believe their original ancestors were given the gift of life. In his book “The ...

BROOKS RANGE, Alaska - On a sunny day in late June, we ferried ourselves across the Alatna River in packrafts, returned the boats and waved goodbye to our group. We’d ...

Jean Aspen, Connie and Bud's daughter, born in 1950, spent the first three years of her life with them in a cabin on the Alatna River — some might say as a prop to their photogenic life ...

Six years ago, I canoed the Alatna River in Gates of the Arctic National Park. We spent three days in the Arrigetch peaks, and four more days floating south on the Alatna, which is a part of the ...

This column begins on the 18th day of the walk in a mountain pass that separates the Alatna River from the Noatak River. Rain fell steadily, loosening truck sized boulders from the mountains and ...

Governor Bill Walker declared a state disaster in the tiny Interior community of Alatna on Sunday after a ... five miles across the frozen Koyukuk River to reach the nearest potable water.

Since the fire, Alatna residents have been forced to cross the frozen Koyukuk River and travel five miles to bring back potable water from Allakaket. With the state disaster declaration ...

Mike Roberts, senior engineering project manager at Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, said responders wanted to give Alatna access to clean water before the Koyukuk River broke up.