The Lush Fire near Rampart exploded to 200 acres in just hours Wednesday night. Smokejumpers are monitoring the fast-moving ...

Several major fires near Healy and Fairbanks spurred Parks Highway closures over the weekend. Long delays were possible ...

Wildfire activity is surging in Interior Alaska, with major responses to the Lush Fire near Rampart and the Nelchina Glacier ...

Other new fires were reported near the Eureka Roadhouse along the Glenn Highway and near the Denali Park community. Forty new ...

Cooperative management of the Yukon by the U.S. and Canada was born from a dramatic chinook crisis in the late 1990s.. In 2001, the two countries formally signed the Yukon River Agreement, an ...

A commentary author writes that in the 1990s, king and chum salmon were abundant. Today, that way of life is vanishing.

But Alaska salmon advocates say the mishap isn’t just a problem for Yukoners: The spill happened upstream of a tributary of the Yukon River. The Yukon is Alaska’s biggest transboundary ...

Meanwhile in Southwest Alaska, damage assessment continued after a 15-mile-long ice jam on the Kuskokwim River led to flooding in the communities of Red Devil and Crooked Creek over the weekend.

The oil firm Hilcorp is already conducting test wells on Alaska Native corporation land in the Yukon Flats region.

A cyanide spill at a major gold mine in the Yukon Territory — high in the Yukon River watershed — has sparked widespread concern in Canada. But Alaska salmon advocates say the mishap isn’t ...