OPINION: Alaska has a chance to create a unified system for subsistence management that includes Native tribes as well as federal and state entities.

OPINION: Alcoholism and bootlegging in rural Alaska are serious issues that merit discussion. But a recent media report from an Anchorage-based newspaper failed to ensure that the wrong message and perceptions don't divide our communities or enforce racial stereotypes.

OPINION: Former Gov. Frank Murkowski was wrong to say that the US Environmental Protection Agency invited itself to evaluate the proposed Pebble project's impact on the water resources of the Bristol Bay region.

OPINION: Through the efforts of greedy opportunists, the Native corporations established by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement have evolved into a caste system rigged to preserve the power of a select few.

It is too bad the Alaska legislature can't come together on coastal zone management and will lose a program that helps the development process, brings in federal money, and creates jobs.

It is too bad the Alaska Legislature can't come together on coastal zone management and will lose a program that helps the development process, brings in federal money and creates jobs.

Adaptive management is a new way for reindeer herders to scientifically understand their grazing lands.

Alaska Natives were taught never to take sick animals or meat home. This can be seen only as common sense to those who just want to survive as their ancestors did not very long ago.

The listing of the Cook Inlet beluga whale as an endangered species has raised awareness of water quality in Cook Inlet.

Letter from Marshall, Alaska: We need to start making a living on our own without handouts. Teens lay around with nothing to do. Young adults bare five or more kids. The kids have no discipline. They don't learn how to hunt and survive...