Two weeks before construction could begin on a controversial road that would cut through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge wetlands, three Western Alaska tribal governments and several environmental groups have filed new lawsuits seeking to block the project. Both complaints, filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, are seeking to overturn a key permit issued earlier […]

When Stan Zuray began noticing white spots, a mushy texture and a weird “sour watermelon” smell in the Chinook salmon he was pulling from the Yukon River, he knew something was going wrong. That was back in the 1980s. By about 1990, he and others just stopped fishing what he calls “the ass end of […]