King Island, Alaska, roughly 85 miles off the coast of Nome, is home to the now abandoned village of Ukivok. In the early 20th century, nearly 200 people—the Ugiuvangmiut—lived in small houses ...

King Island, Alaska, roughly 85 miles off the coast of Nome, is home to the now abandoned village of Ukivok. In the early 20th century, nearly 200 people — the Ugiuvangmiut — lived in small ...

Paul Tiulana, a King Island man, in the early 1950s. (Photo by Juan Muñoz Sr.) Yaayuk Bernadette Alvanna-Stimpfle was born to a King Island family in 1955. She wasn’t raised on the Bering Sea ...

The new season will feature the likes of Jake Anderson and Keith Colburn, along with their iconic vessels, as they travel the ...

Kings are also a bellwether for all of Alaska’s salmon fishing — which accounted for 97 percent of the wild salmon caught in the United States in 2022, according to the North Pacific ...

It's embedded in the culture of Alaska's working waterfronts and king crabs have been the centerpiece of holiday feasts around the world. However, the red king crab fishery collapsed in the 1980s.