In 1918, a flu epidemic decimated the Alaska village of Wales, explaining many of its troubles today. Mike Weyapuk knew the history, but he faced his own problems to the end.

AKIACHAK, Alaska — The bush plane glides over the tundra in autumn, descending slowly into the green and orange with avian grace. Soon its wheels kiss a spit of an airstrip in a western Alaska ...

2004-08-29 04:00:00 PDT Gambell , Alaska-- When it became clear that the elders in this isolated Eskimo village on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea approved of the marriage, Clifford Apatiki ...

Rising sea levels have eroded an Inupiat Eskimo village for decades. Now, residents of Shishmaref, Alaska, have officially voted to relocate. The island community, located near the Bering Strait ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A remote Eskimo village on a tundra-covered island in western Alaska is hoping to counter its steep unemployment rate and achieve greater self-sufficiency through one of its ...

As a result, the tiny Iñupiat Eskimo village of Kaktovik on Barter Island – just off Alaska’s frigid north coast – is fast becoming the polar bear capital of the United States.

No place says "baked Alaska" like the Eskimo village of Shishmaref, a barrier island town of 600 residents on the state's west coast. Shishmaref's natives, called Inupiat, ...

Volunteers in the Operation Santa Program and the Alaska National Guard brought Christmas to the remote Inupiat Eskimo community of Shishmaref, on Alaska's western coast.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Military families across America often endure hardship when a loved one ships out. But there aren’t many places in the United States where those left behind have to chop ice ...

In 1918, a flu epidemic decimated the Alaska village of Wales, explaining many of its troubles today. Mike Weyapuk knew the history, but he faced his own problems to the end.