half of the donated fish will go to communities in AVCP’s coverage area around the mouth of the lower Yukon, and the other half will be delivered to villages further up-river served by TCC.

A chum salmon caught in July on the Yukon River near Russian Mission, a small Yup’ik village in western Alaska. Grist / Max Graham All five species of Pacific salmon swim in the Yukon ...

The Yukon River stretches past Stevens Village on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, in Stevens Village, Alaska. Two salmon species have all but disappeared from Alaska’s Yukon River this year ...

But the new rules won't kick in until at least 2011. King salmon are a staple subsistence food for cash-poor Yukon River villages. The big, oil-rich fish also sell for about $5 a pound ...

They say they're going to reinvest and it never happens,” said Rhonda Pitka, chief of the tribal government in Beaver, a Yukon River village some 20 miles downstream of the Birch Creek confluence.

Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series looking at the impact that low salmon counts are having on Yukon River villages. In the Yukon region, some fish are coming in low ...

“It’s scary,” said Jo Malamute, acting city administrator in the Yukon River village of Koyukuk, some 350 miles northwest of Anchorage. Tribal members met last week and decided to stop ...

A historically massive wildfire is threatening four Yup'ik villages on the Yukon River in southwestern Alaska. On Sunday, the fire was within approximately three and a half miles of one of those ...

“It’s just no good,” said Linda Englishoe, sitting on the sofa in her house not far from the Yukon River. An elder now, Englishoe has lived in the village for her entire life. There are ...

More salmon was flown to Yukon River communities on Tuesday to help the residents hurt by low fish runs and fishing restrictions. The administration of Gov. Mike Dunleavy, together with local ...