A refurbishing effort in Eklutna will breathe new life into Anchorage’s oldest standing building, a simple Russian Orthodox log church dating from the era of Russia’s colonization of Alaska.

“My mom was born in 1957 and she was never baptized Russian Orthodox,” said Leggett, great-great-grandson of Eklutna Alex, the last shaman in the village, who was also the caretaker of the church.

Unlike most native villages in Alaska, which are scattered over the roadless bush and isolated from urban areas, the Dena'ina Athabascan village of Eklutna – home to about 60 people – is ...

St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska,” as she is officially known, was canonized on June 19 as the first female ...

Eklutna Inc, the native corporation that's associated with the village, has given the city land for greenbelts and utilities. They've also leased land for schools at only $10 per year.

It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire ...

TODAY’s Al Roker, Dylan Dreyer, and NBC’s Kaylee Hartung traveled over 3,000 miles to Anchorage, Alaska — a destination famous for its summer solstice, when the city experiences up to 22 hours of ...

The state of Alaska has filed suit against the federal Department of the Interior in an attempt to overturn a legal opinion that allowed the Native Village of Eklutna to open a federally regulated ...

Apr. 21—As Southcentral Alaska electric utilities push forward with a much-contested plan to reduce the impacts of a hydroelectric project on fish and wildlife, the Native Village of Eklutna is ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — The Russian Orthodox church was established in Alaska on Kodiak Island in 1794 and missionaries spread the faith, baptizing an estimated 18,000 Alaska Natives.

The Russian Orthodox church was established in Alaska on Kodiak Island in 1794 and missionaries spread the faith, baptizing an estimated 18,000 Alaska Natives. Today, up to 50,000 Alaskans ...