June 15, 2026
A district court judge has awarded Indigenous corporations $1.8 million in attorney fees in a dispute over rules regulating subsistence fishing in the Kuskokwim River, saying Alaska waited too long to argue a sovereign immunity defense in the case that ended in the U.S. Supreme Court.
April 20, 2026
Indigenous organizations say Alaska is responsible for the length of a dispute rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court over fishing rights in the Kuskokwim River, telling a district court that the state is trying to "foist responsibility" for millions in legal fees onto its Native citizens.
March 11, 2026
Alaska is asking a federal court to deny a bid for attorney fees by a Native organization in a dispute over rules regulating subsistence fishing in the Kuskokwim River, arguing it could collectively cost $2.2 million for the case that ultimately ended in the U.S. Supreme Court.
April 01, 2024
A federal judge has granted the U.S. government's bid for an early win in its challenge against Alaska over subsistence fishing rules in the Kuskokwim River, which runs through the state's southwest region, ruling that the United States is entitled to a permanent injunction.
October 16, 2023
An Alaskan Native American organization can intervene in a dispute over the Biden administration's subsistence gill net fishing rules in the Kuskokwim River, with a federal district judge determining that its bid was timely despite objections from the state claiming it could cause unneeded delays toward final resolution.
October 04, 2023
The state of Alaska is urging a federal district court to deny a bid by a Native American organization to intervene in a challenge against the Biden administration over subsistence gill net fishing rules in the Kuskokwim River, saying allowing the move would prejudice the case and cause unneeded delays.
September 06, 2023
The state of Alaska wants an early win in a lawsuit brought against it by the Biden administration over subsistence fishing rules in the Kuskokwim River that runs through southwest Alaska, telling an Alaska federal court that the federal government cannot overtake the state's power to regulate its fisheries.
July 31, 2023
Tribal alliances are asking an Alaska federal judge to permanently block state officials' attempt to open part of the Kuskokwim River to gill net fishing by all residents of the state, saying it violates laws favoring rural subsistence users already struggling with declining salmon runs.
August 01, 2022
An Alaska federal judge has allowed Ahtna Inc. to take part in a challenge to a state order that would allow gill net fishing by all Alaskans on a stretch of the Kuskokwim River, saying that the Alaska Native corporation can intervene to seek to preserve key circuit precedent on Native subsistence fishing.
July 11, 2022
Subsistence fishers and an alliance of 56 tribes say a state order that would have opened a stretch of Alaskan river to gill net fishing would directly harm them and other rural residents.