The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the state of Alaska’s latest attempt to alter Alaska’s decades-old system of subsistence ...

The Alaska Federation of Natives expressed relief at the court’s denial, which keeps in place a unique federal protection ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — Nearly five years after a federal board granted a subsistence hunt to a Native American tribe experiencing food insecurity during the throes of the pandemic, the state of Alaska ...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a case Monday that could have decided if rural Alaskans should continue getting preferential ...

Little Duncan Bay and Duncan Canal as seen from Portage Mountain west of Petersburg. (File/KFSK) “Outlast” is a survival show where contestants are dropped into the Alaska wilderness to compete for a ...

The shoreline of Kake, a Tlingit village of about 500 people, is seen in 2012. (Photo provided by the Alaska Division of Community Affairs) A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

On August 20, 2025, in United States v. Alaska No. 24‑2251, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the federal government’s authority to create a rural subsistence fishing priority in navigable waters on federal ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior is considering whether to change Alaska’s unique system of hunting and fishing, which gives rural residents priority on federal land in Alaska. According to a ...

One of the many fresh and unexpected stories in the recent Ken Burns PBS series on the American Revolution was the account of all the Indian tribes that sided with the British to keep colonial ...

A moose is seen in an Anchorage neighborhood near Kincaid Park on April 27, 2022. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) A federal judge in Anchorage has ruled that U.S. government officials did not ...

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the board which regulates subsistence hunting on federal lands within Alaska acted legally when it created an emergency hunt ...

This article has been corrected to note Patty Sullivan is a spokesperson for the Department of Law, not an attorney. A federal judge in Anchorage has ruled that U.S. government officials did not ...