Three Alaska tribes sued the Trump administration on Thursday over a permit that would allow construction of a gravel road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge on the Alaska ...

Marissa Russo is a former STAT intern supported by the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship. American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States live nearly four years less than ...

Two new lawsuits say the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated the law by issuing a wetlands-fill permit for a road through ...

Alaska's main Native healthcare organization is set to receive $400 million from the federal government for unpaid expenses after the U.S. Department of ...

The federal government has agreed to pay the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium $400 million to settle claims of ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this month that the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and the Office on ...

This mudshark shirt is being repatriated from the Minnesota Museum of Art to the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Central Council of the Tlingit and ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — In the sanctity of a tribal sweat lodge, master wood carver Wayne Price felt his creator utter a directive to use his talents to help men and women battle addiction. "In that sweat ...

The largest Alaska Native healthcare provider in the state will receive hundreds of millions of dollars after the federal ...

The federal government board that manages subsistence will be expanded with three representatives of Alaska Native tribes, under a new rule the Biden administration made final on Wednesday. The new ...

Alaska’s 229 federally recognized tribes will get a long-sought victory when a bill giving them state recognition is signed Thursday by Gov. Mike Dunleavy. But since Alaska Native leaders acknowledge ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to invest $278 million in water infrastructure projects for American Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages, EPA announced June 28. The ...