With busy fishing fleets, thriving art and food scenes, vibrant Native communities and quirky little museums, it’s hard not to fall deeply, madly in love with the coastal communities of Southeast Alaska. You can drive to a few towns in the area, but ...

Fifteen tribal nations in southeast Alaska have petitioned an international commission for human rights for help in influencing the Canadian government to take action against six mines in B.C. The Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission filed the petition Wednesday,

The troller Sallie enters Eliason Harbor in Sitka. Only 500 boats fished in the first king opener July 1-12, 2023. (Berett Wilber/KCAW) The numbers are in for the first opening in the summer troll fishery for king salmon in Southeast Alaska. The 12-day ...

In Alaska, a state famous for abundant salmon and huge, cold-water-loving crab, another type of fish is making a splash: tuna. Incursion of warm waters into Southeast Alaska coastal areas off Sitka and Baranof Island created a brief tuna jackpot earlier ...

In a Sept. 8 opinion piece, USDA Secretary Rollins suggested Southeast Alaska’s prosperity depends on reviving industrial-scale timber harvests on public lands. For 17,000 years, Indigenous people of Southeast Alaska have thrived on these lands — not ...

When part of a mountain in southeast Alaska slid into the ocean last summer, it triggered the second highest tsunami ever recorded. That tsunami ran 481 meters—one-and-a-half times the height of the Eiffel Tower—up the wall of the Tracy Arm fjord more than a kilometer away and generated a seismic signal equivalent to a magnitude 5.