Note: Alaska Public Media receives funding from the Alaska Mental Health Trust. Allison Biastock, chief communications officer for the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, is clomping over frozen ...

A federal judge in Anchorage has ruled that the U.S. Department of the Interior may take land into trust on behalf of Alaska Native tribes, a decision that could allow tribes to create “Indian country ...

A designated wilderness area in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the largest U.S. national forest, is now a little bit bigger, thanks to a land purchase and transfer arranged by two ...

Arsenio “Pastor” Credo was born in Juneau and he wants to die here, too. As an Alaska Native, he was entitled to up to 160 acres of land in Alaska via the 1906 Alaska Native Allotment Act. But, Credo ...

Jurisdiction over this small plot of land, seen Jan. 20, 2023, is being disputed between the state of Alaska, the federal government and the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of ...

Members of the U.S. Senate last week proposed a major sale of federal land as part of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” proposed by Republicans to fund the U.S. government. If adopted, the proposed sale could ...

The Nenana Totchaket Agricultural Project aims to fight food insecurity in the state but could interfere with local trappers’ ability to gather food. Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration believes the ...

It’s easy to stake a mining claim on public land in much of the United States, though a significant portion of Alaska is off-limits, at least for now. However, the Bureau of Land Management is ...

Your mental image of an Alaskan farm probably involves a plot of land amid endless country, hemmed in only by distant, snow-capped peaks. Perhaps that image is informed by articles on “cheap” and ...