KAKTOVIK, Alaska (AP) — Early last summer, George Kaleak, a whaling captain in the tiny Alaska Native village of Kaktovik, on an island in the Arctic Ocean just off the state’s northern coast, pinned ...

KAKTOVIK, Alaska (AP) — The right to vote is considered sacrosanct in the U.S., but it isn't always so in the tiny, remote Native villages across Alaska. In these far-flung locations — well off any ...

Aug. 20—The Alaska Division of Elections said that two precincts in rural Alaska failed to open for in-person voting on primary election day. Carol Beecher, director of the Division of Elections, said ...

FILE - A polar bear and a cub search for scraps in a large pile of bowhead whale bones left from the village's subsistence hunting at the end of an unused airstrip near the village of Kaktovik, Alaska ...