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A western Alaska tribal consortium has appealed a key permit for a proposed gold dredging project in waters near Nome. Kawerak, a nonprofit that serves some 20 Iñupiaq and Yup’ik tribes in the Bering Strait region, last month asked state regulators for a hearing on a wastewater discharge permit for the project. The permit, a…

Education is increasingly reliant on the internet. In rural Alaska, who provides internet service to schools is a million-dollar question.

Four people are dead after a plane they were traveling in from Bethel crashed short of the runway in St. Mary’s late Sunday night, according to transportation officials. The Cessna 207 was operated by Bethel-based Yute Commuter Service. The pilot and three passengers departed Bethel for the roughly 100-mile journey to the lower Yukon River…

Last week’s fierce storms aren’t unprecedented, but longtime residents say they aren’t all that normal either.

Orca depredation isn’t just a costly headache for fishermen — it can be dangerous for orcas, too.

The new study deepens the connection between human-caused climate change and the crabs’ die-off in recent years.