Can you please not talk to me like I’m an idiot?
Yet again, I was on the phone with a man in a hardware store who felt he could talk down to me simply because I was a woman with a question.
Yet again, I was on the phone with a man in a hardware store who felt he could talk down to me simply because I was a woman with a question.
After arriving in Southwest Alaska in 1980, the late Maro Kargas brought delicious Greek and Mediterranean dishes to the restaurant she opened in Bethel, and her reputation gradually spread across Alaska.
My mother grew up in a house where her parents spoke Inupiaq to each other. I grew up in a house where only English was used. And because of that, I was excluded.
The Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge holds important habitat for spectacled eiders and will be the location of much of the work.
A year ago, a drunken snowmachiner harassed both Iditarod mushers, killing one dog and injuring others.
Few people are more observant than my neighbor up the lake, so how is it he didn't notice those rocks in our bay?
Few people are more observant than my neighbor up the lake, so how is it he didn't notice those rocks in our bay?
The account of an Inupiat teacher's life is fascinating enough, but the photos make it remarkable.
With the Alaska herd numbering at least 50,000 animals, some state biologists are worried the caribou may overgraze their range.
The Norwegian musher, who now lives in Kaktovik, keeps cross-cultural family traditions alive with long-distance Arctic expeditions.
When it became time for me to see this man face to face, we realized one sobering truth about rural Alaska dating. “You literally live $1,000 away,” he said — three flights and a day and a half of travel.
There's no law enforcement in America quite like Alaska's village public safety officers. They provide vital security, but their numbers are dropping.
In "Finding Alaska's Villages: And Connecting Them," author Alex Hills of Palmer traces the introduction of phones to small communities lacking the big base of consumers that telecommunication companies sought.
In "Finding Alaska's Villages: And Connecting Them," author Alex Hills of Palmer traces the introduction of phones to small communities lacking the big base of consumers that telecommunication companies sought.
The graphite deposit in Northwest Alaska is considered to be one of the world's largest.
Our outhouse is open to water on one side. But the boats that chug, sail, paddle and float past are too far away to see anything. Right?
Eight duplexes are being constructed this winter near the Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital to help house hospital employees.
Every two to four days, John Parka snowmachines out to the ice near where the Aniak and Kuskokwim rivers meet to check his setnet.
Every two to four days, John Parka snowmachines out to the ice near where the Aniak and Kuskokwim rivers meet to check his setnet.
Bethel's hometown hero held off Brent Sass of Eureka and YK mushing pal, Richie Diehl of Aniak, to claim the top prize of $25,000. They all endured wind chills of minus 50 on the final stretch.