A legal fight is ramping up over who should manage Alaska's dwindling salmon populations—and who gets access to them. By Max Graham/Grist Published Dec 25, 2023 11:00 AM EST Add Popular Science (opens ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kuskokwim River is seen in this image captured by scientists working on NASA's Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, or ...

SEATTLE (CN) — A dispute between Alaska and the federal government over subsistence fishing on the Kuskokwim River has led a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to consider whether decades-old ...

The state of Alaska is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether rural Alaskans should continue to get preferential fishing rights on most rivers and lakes within federal parks, preserves and ...

A federal district court judge on Friday ruled in favor of the Biden administration in its battle with the Alaska state government over management authority of subsistence fishing related to ...

Alaska’s current subsistence fishing program can continue without changes, according to a Wednesday opinion by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The ruling allows the ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. When salmon all but vanished from western Alaska in 2021, thousands of people ...