Three Alaskans sued state election officials Thursday, alleging that language adopted by the state for a ballot measure ...

Supporters of Alaska’s election system filed a lawsuit against the Alaska Division of Elections on Thursday, alleging that ...

Twenty-three Alaska Native languages have been recognized alongside English as official Alaska state languages for a decade, but until this month there was no measure by which its schools could gauge ...

When Alaska students learn to read in English, they aim to meet specific expectations and standards that measure their proficiency. Yet when they learn to read in their Alaska Native language — many ...

A group of 14 Indigenous educators in Alaska is proposing new standards for how Alaska Native languages — some of which are on the verge of dying out — are taught in the state. In January, the Alaska ...

The Yukon-Kuskokwim hub of Bethel is seen from the air on July 13, 2015. The Bethel Census Area, where many residents speak Yup'ik, is one of the rural regions where U.S. Justice Department ...

FAIRBANKS — Village elders have worked with researchers for years to document the slate of native languages found across the state. Many of those languages, including Lower Tanana, are extremely ...

A three-year language mentorship program beginning in Southeast Alaska in August hopes to help revitalize the Tlingit language, classified as on the edge of extinction, by pairing fluent elders with ...