A group of walruses on a flat rock at Qayassiq. June 2022. (KDLG photo) Thirty miles off the coast of the village of Togiak in Southwest Alaska sits Round Island, known in Yugtun as Qayassiq.

A 200-pound walrus calf found alone and miles from the ocean on Alaska’s North Slope is being bottle-fed and receiving round-the-clock "cuddling" from doting animal welfare workers who are trying to ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A pair of Web cameras providing Internet images of walruses basking on Round Island will be shut off this week at the request of Alaska Native leaders, who do not want viewers ...

This article has been updated with new information about the walrus pup’s death. Despite ceaseless rescue efforts that included around-the-clock cuddles, a walrus pup found alone July 31 died after ...

Megan Onders, from Nome, is chief of the King Island Native Community and an advocate of her region's ivory carving traditions. She wore six bracelets made of walrus ivory and baleen when she ...

Eight Yup'ik and Inupiaq high school youth create a traditional dance of the Walrus Hunt. Through the after school program at the Alaska Native Heritage Center, many young Alaska Natives are finding a ...

Alaska's hunting reputation is justly deserved. One-fifth the size of the entire United States, Alaska offers wilderness hunting opportunities found in few other locations in the world. It is true ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A pair of Web cameras providing Internet images of walruses basking on Round Island will be shut off this week at the request of Alaska Native leaders, who do not want viewers to ...