The Alaska Federation of Natives expressed relief at the court’s denial, which keeps in place a unique federal protection ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the state of Alaska’s latest attempt to alter Alaska’s decades-old system of subsistence ...

Petition denied. Those two words appeared on the U.S. Supreme Court’s docket Monday as it rejected the state of Alaska’s ...

The federal government in December gave up its claim to ownership of the section of the Fortymile River in Alaska's eastern ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — Nearly five years after a federal board granted a subsistence hunt to a Native American tribe experiencing food insecurity during the throes of the pandemic, the state of Alaska ...

On August 20, 2025, in United States v. Alaska No. 24‑2251, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the federal government’s authority to create a rural subsistence fishing priority in navigable waters on federal ...

The Safari Club International hosted a feast of wild fish and game for Western Alaska disaster evacuees at the Alaska Native Heritage Center on Dec. 18. About 200 people attended, including Gov. Mike ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior is considering whether to change Alaska’s unique system of hunting and fishing, which gives rural residents priority on federal land in Alaska. According to a ...

The shoreline of Kake, a Tlingit village of about 500 people, is seen in 2012. (Photo provided by the Alaska Division of Community Affairs) A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

Feb. 1—State game managers reduced bag limits for subsistence and nonresident hunters this week to preserve the declining Western Arctic Caribou Herd. The Alaska Board of Game concluded its meeting in ...

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the board which regulates subsistence hunting on federal lands within Alaska acted legally when it created an emergency hunt ...