The U.S. portion of a historic, 33-mile hiking trail between Skagway and British Columbia has been off limits to backcountry ...

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 ...

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 ...

In summer, the Yukon River teems with life. Ducks and geese raise their young in quiet sloughs. Moose graze amid shoreline willows. Beavers splash along the muddy banks. Concealed by waters milky ...

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Later this spring, barges of heavy equipment will pull away from a launch on Alaska’s road system and begin a journey up the Yukon River. More than 100 miles upstream, a tributary, Birch Creek ...

Writers Olivia Ebertz and Bathsheba Demuth boated more than 1,000 miles up and down the Yukon River last summer, hearing the stories and perspective of residents and Tribal leaders along the way.

Intrinsic to the Yukon River are skills shared and carefully honed among families, for generations. Nika Silverfox-Young, a citizen of the Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation in the Yukon ...

It was here, among the chintzy chandeliers and brown carpeting, that preparations were underway for the world’s longest canoe race, a 1,000-mile odyssey down the Yukon River, and the event’s ...

Whitehorse, on the banks of the storied Yukon River, is situated in the Canadian province of Yukon and is one of the most prominent cities on the Alaska Highway. The city is rich in Klondike gold ...