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The monthly magazine Alaska Business lists an Alaska Native regional corporation in first place among the state's businesses based on gross revenues. The Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, or ASRC, had revenues of $3.5 billion in 2020. ASRC, or the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, which runs petroleum refining and oil field support services, and other operations, has offices in Anchorage, shown here.

Tempers flare over definition of tribes, Alaska Native corporations

By Joaqlin EstusJun 22, 2022

During Election 2014, turnout surged in Alaska Native villages, including Togiak, shown here, in the Bristol Bay region. This was a result of various improvements in voting access, including increased language assistance for speakers of Alaska Native languages. Now, a judge has ordered that the assistance be made permanent.

Native candidate may be missing from Alaska US House ballot

By The Associated PressJun 22, 2022

Mary Peltola, a Democrat seeking the sole U.S. House seat in Alaska, speaks during a forum for candidates, Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Anchorage, Alaska.Voters are whittling down the list of 48 candidates running for Alaska's only U.S. House seat, with the top four vote-getters in a special primary on Saturday, June 11, advancing to an August special election. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Yup'ik candidate advances to Alaska's US House election

By The Associated PressJun 17, 2022

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Alaska Native candidate holds on in US House special primary

By Pauly DenetclawJun 16, 2022

Happy to be together in person again, left to right: NCAI Southern Plains Vice-President Gonzo Flores, Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas; Great Plains Vice-President:Harold Frazier, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe; and Northeast Vice-President Lance Gumbs, Shinnecock Indian Nation of New York, at the National Congress of American Indians mid-year conference, Dena'Ina Convention Center in Anchorage, AK on June 13, 2022 (Photo by Joaqlin Estus, ICT)

NCAI heads into midyear conference short its CEO

By Joaqlin EstusJun 14, 2022

The chamber of the House of Representatives is seen at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. President Joe Biden will deliver his State of the Union speech Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress and the nation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Alaska Native candidates in running for US House special primary

By The Associated PressJun 13, 2022

Fur seals. St. Paul, Pribilof Islands, Alaska. (Photographer: Allen Shimada, National Oceanic and Atmoshpheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Science and Technology/AMD, Courtesy of Creative Commons).

Alaska tribe nominates Pribilof Islands area for sanctuary

By The Associated PressJun 9, 2022

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Four Alaska Natives vie for sole congressional seat

By Joaqlin EstusJun 8, 2022

Workers with the Pebble Mine project test drill in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska near the village of Iliamna, Alaska, in 2007. The battle over a copper and gold mine near one of the world's premiere salmon fisheries is headed to the ballot in a vote next week that has turned a normally sleepy local election into a national environmental debate. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)

EPA proposes restrictions in fight over Alaska mine

By The Associated PressMay 29, 2022

Sockeye salmon strips hang in a smokehouse on the Kuskokwim River at Yukon Delta Refuge. (Photo by Lisa Hupp/USFWS, courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Federal government sues Alaska over subsistence

By Joaqlin EstusMay 26, 2022

William Tyson Elementary School principal John Kito stands in the school’s lobby in front of artwork made for the school by Southeast Alaska artist Nathan Jackson. (Emily Mesner / ADN)

Tlingit John Kito retires after 57 years in education

By Joaqlin EstusMay 24, 2022

A local dam that holds water fed by a well in the watershed area of the Chuska Mountains provides water for wild horses and herds of cattle. All across the Navajo Nation, communities have been impacted by the low rainfall and snowpack because of drought caused by climate change. (Photo by Pauly Denetclaw for Indian Country Today)

Coordinated response needed to respond to climate change effects on tribes

By Joaqlin EstusMay 22, 2022

Shown here: Donlin Gold's base camp near Crooked Creek, in western Alaska, the site of what would be one of the world's largest gold mines. (Photo courtesy of Donlin Gold).

Alaska affirms water certificate for proposed Donlin mine

By Joaqlin EstusMay 17, 2022

A 22-foot healing totem pole carved by master carver Wayne Pryce, who is Tlingit, is now being installed next to the fishing dock at Twin Lakes (Mark Sabbatini, Juneau Empire)

A long road toward healing

By Juneau EmpireMay 14, 2022

Jim LaBelle, Navy whites, n.d. (Courtesy of Jim LaBelle)

Alaska Native Vietnam-era veterans hopeful for new lands

By Joaqlin EstusMay 11, 2022

Tiberius Newbill holding a poster from hospital staff with parents Tasha and Enrico Newbill, at Seattle Children’s Hospital Cancer Ward on 11/16/21, the day of Tiberius' first transplant (Photo courtesy of Tasha Newbill)

Inupiaq boy hopes for life-saving stem cell transplant

By Joaqlin EstusMay 9, 2022

Athabascan objects, including a chief's coat from the Tanacross area, are displayed at the Alaska Native Heritage Center on Friday, April 22, 2022. The objects are some of 1,744 items that were donated to the center by Wells Fargo. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Moving thousands of Indigenous artifacts closer to home

By Anchorage Daily NewsMay 8, 2022

NPR-A, National Petroleum Reserve (NPR-A) in Alaska map (Courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management).

Arctic Inupiaq leaders take aim at Biden oil policy

By Joaqlin EstusMay 5, 2022

Sealaska Board Chair Joe Nelson pulls bull kelp from Saginaw Channel near Juneau on Sept. 14, 2021. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Sealaska’s move from timber to kelp

By Anchorage Daily NewsApr 25, 2022

ANCSA: Three men identified as left to right: Howard Rock, Theodore Hetzel, and Tom Snapp. They appear to be discussing the items on the table in front of them, which appears to be printer's type blocks and plates. (Photo courtesy of Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks)

Remembering Howard Rock, Tundra Times founder and editor

By Thomas Richards, Jr.Apr 19, 2022

The chamber of the House of Representatives is seen at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. President Joe Biden will deliver his State of the Union speech Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress and the nation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Alaska Natives running in crowded congressional race

By Joaqlin EstusApr 8, 2022

Alaska State Capitol, Juneau

Alaska Supreme Court rules against gerrymandering

By Joaqlin EstusMar 28, 2022

From story 1 of Nome Sexual Assault 5-part series that ran weekly on Saturdays starting on Jan. 30, 2021. HED: "Seeking protection, justice: sexual assault in Northwest Alaska, Part 1 of 5, DEK: 'We need to fix our humanity.' Shown here: Front Street, Nome, Alaska, March 2017. Photo: David Dodman, KNOM.

Alaska Native settles with city after rape report ignored

By The Associated PressMar 24, 2022

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Alaska Natives ready for a Native candidate to step forward

By Joaqlin EstusMar 24, 2022

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