Alaska’s remote Western Arctic caribou herd has been a heated topic of discussion in recent years. The herd’s declining population has been the catalyst for massive closures of public lands to non – ...

Caribou, Red Dog mine and Maniilaq Crisis Center: These are the three focuses the Northwest Alaska Leadership Team highlighted during the first day of the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention.

Two bull caribou of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd swimming across the Kobuk River during fall 2011 migration in Kobuk Valley National Park. The herd has been in decline since hitting its peak ...

Several Alaska Native tribes and conservation groups are suing the federal government to stop a road through Izembek National ...

Juneau, Alaska — Conservation groups sued Monday over a state program in Alaska that authorizes killing brown and black bears as a way to increase the size of a once-significant caribou herd in the ...

As ConocoPhillips builds its huge Willow oil drilling project on the western side of Alaska’s North Slope, federal regulators and residents of the nearest Iñupiaq village have struck a deal for a new ...

Wildlife officials in Alaska are pushing back on a state supreme court decision to halt an aerial predator-control program they say is necessary to help reverse caribou declines. Less than two weeks ...

ANCHORAGE, AK—Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges and allied groups sued the Interior Department and King Cove Corporation Tuesday in U.S. District Court for signing a land exchange agreement ...