EAGLE VILLAGE, Alaska - When Jody Potts-Joseph was growing up, her family mushed sled dogs during the harsh Alaskan winters to hunt and trap, feeding them salmon caught from the Yukon River by the ...

Serena Fitka sat in the cabin of a flat-bottomed aluminum boat as it sped down the Yukon River in western Alaska, recalling how the river once ran thick with salmon. Each summer, in the Yup’ik village ...

A few days ago, at the end of a summerlong journey in which he navigated nearly the entire Yukon River without a boat, Denis Morin was overcome by all he was and all he had been through. The ...

A new study shows melting permafrost is changing the chemistry of the Yukon River, just one of many climate-related changes affecting the Yukon and beyond. Hydrologist Ryan Toohy with the USGS Alaska ...

This is the Lapie River, slicing through the heart of the Yukon. Glacial blue water twists between steep canyon cliffs, ...

A group of Indigenous leaders, scientists and policy experts have proposed management actions to promote recovery of Yukon River salmon and manage their harvest more equitably. The proposals include a ...

Chinook salmon swim by the Whitehorse fish ladder. A new 7-year agreement signed by Canada and Alaska sets a new conservation target of 71,000 Canadian-origin Yukon River chinook at the international ...

Two salmon species have all but disappeared from Alaska’s Yukon River this year, prompting the state to shut down fishing in an effort to save them STEVENS VILLAGE, Alaska (AP) — In a normal year, the ...

The Yukon River is delivering upwards of five tons of mercury a year to the Arctic environment, likely in response to a warming climate, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey announced Tuesday.

EAGLE — While most of the town was sleeping, the ice slipped out. Breakup happened on the Yukon River here at its first settlement in the United States at around 2 a.m. on Saturday, May 7. That’s when ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Serena Fitka, executive director of the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, about this year's dramatic scarcity of Yukon River salmon and its effect on communities.

Searchers found a man Wednesday who was reported missing last weekend after he set out to travel by boat on the Yukon River from Circle, but never arrived at his destination in Fort Yukon. Alaska ...