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Tariffs Are Unravelling the Lifeline Between Yukon and Alaska

Frustrated and a little heartbroken, Whitehorse resident Karen McColl decided to send a breakup letter to the mayors of two small coastal towns in Alaska. As she read headline after headline about ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Opinion: Alaska and Yukon, let’s unite and grow old together

The Alaska Legislature earlier this month approved a resolution supporting Canada’s independence, a body check on President Donald Trump’s unsportsmanlike conduct toward our neighbor. The resolution ...
Alaska Public Media

On the Yukon, Alaska and Canada are bound together by salmon – and their collapse

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 sea ...
Alaska Public Media

Amid salmon crash, Alaska’s Yukon River residents say a new pact with Canada leaves them behind

This reporting was supported by a Carnegie Foundation Fellowship. Writers Olivia Ebertz and Bathsheba Demuth boated more than 1,000 miles up and down the Yukon River last summer, hearing the stories ...
CU Boulder News & Events

As salmon disappear in warming rivers, Indigenous communities face an uncertain future

For millennia, Indigenous people living in Alaska and Canada’s Yukon territory have relied on Chinook salmon. The large, fatty fish provide essential nutrients for Arctic living and have influenced ...
PBS

Alaska's Housing Shortage | Alaska Insight

And then I come back to Anchorage, Alaska and they're like, we want Fort Yukon dollars a month for like some 1980s, never remodeled Marshall. I'm just I'm not either. What's causing the housing crunch ...