Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left ...

Sea otters living along the coastline of Canada’s British Columbia province carry residues of “forever chemicals” in their ...

Tucked along the legendary Kenai River on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, Soldotna offers a refreshing alternative to the ...

Alaska has no shortage of breathtaking wilderness, but Chilkat State Park might be the crown jewel you’ve never heard of. Tucked away near the small town of Haines, this natural sanctuary offers the ...

It was a foggy October afternoon on the central California coast when the Marine Mammal Center got a call on their public ...

Kayaking on the Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage is so much fun. With beautiful lakes, rivers and bays at Seward and Homer, ...

Gus Van Sant is still moving. “I think a lot of the films I’ve made, even unintentionally, have been based on real things,” Van Sant says with his familiar mix of understatement and curiosity. “That’s ...

This is the second story in a four-part series from the Alaska Desk called Shelf Life, which looks at food security in Alaska. In the very back corner of Skagway’s only grocery store, a laminated sign ...

Their fur is so soft it almost led to their extinction, but otters’ recovery has been a boon to Pacific kelp forests, a key habitat for other sealife Sea otters use their agile, grippy forepaws to ...

Typhoon Halong was an unusual storm, likely fueled by the Pacific’s near-record warm surface temperatures this fall. Its timing means recovery will be even more difficult than usual for these hard-hit ...