Gwichyaa Zhee is the Gwich’in name for Fort Yukon. The village sits on the upper Yukon River, 150 miles northeast of Fairbanks. It’s home to less than 500 mostly Gwich’in Athabascan people ...

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 ...

Yukon river residents are not able to make dry fish from chum and chinook for the year in a row. (Shane Iverson/KYUK) The Yukon River covers a lot of ground on its nearly 2,000 mile journey to the ...

AILSA CHANG, HOST: For Alaska Native communities along the Yukon River, salmon fishing has always been a central part of life. But climate change is driving a massive collapse in salmon populations.