With busy fishing fleets, thriving art and food scenes, vibrant Indigenous communities and quirky little museums, it’s hard ...

In Alaska, a state famous for abundant salmon and huge, cold-water-loving crab, another type of fish is making a splash: tuna. Incursion of warm waters into Southeast Alaska coastal areas off Sitka ...

A sea otter floats on its back. Communities in Southeast Alaska are ramping up calls on the federal government to better manage the region’s booming sea otter population and its impacts on key ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A killer whale, also known as an orca, cruises in water along the shore of Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest on Sept. 16, ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A retreating glacier revealed a new island in Alaska this summer, as lake water filled in to surround a land mass once hugged by ice. Mauri S. Pelto, a glaciologist at Nichols ...

Fifty years ago, in a small Southeast Alaska village, a group of tribal leaders gathered around a shared vision: to take back control of their community’s health. What followed changed the future of ...

A rare sea creature was spotted for the first time off the coast of southeast Alaska, boaters said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A sea creature was spotted off the coast of Alaska, and the sighting has ...

When a young Sealaska intern walking a beach in July 2022 found the first evidence of European green crab presence in Alaska – a discarded shell on a beach on Annette Island in the state’s far ...

The fight for the largest intact temperate forest in the United States continues with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jared Nelson, left, and Adam Olson, right, show off their haul of albacore tuna caught off the Sitka coast on Sept. 7, 2025.