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NTSB: Bering Air crash that killed 10 was a chain of preventable failures
The NTSB found the Bering Air crash that killed 10 near Nome resulted from a chain of preventable failures — an overweight plane the company routinely flew heavy, severe icing, and a pilot overloaded in the final minutes.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1d ago2 min readAINome, Alaska
A storm hits Norton Sound just before Friday's gillnet opening
A Bering Sea storm hits Norton Sound Thursday with 45 mph gusts and 9-foot seas, a day before a 24-hour commercial gillnet opening.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAINorton Sound, Alaska
NMFS proposes removing economic data reporting requirements for BSAI trawl and crab programs
Federal fisheries managers proposed eliminating economic reporting requirements for Bering Sea trawl and crab harvesters, citing limited usefulness and cost savings.
by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAIBering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Bering Straits bets big on federal contracting, just as the business gets harder
Bering Straits Native Corp. bought nine federal contractors, doubling down on government work just as awards to Native-owned firms drop and the 8(a) program comes under fire.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAIBering Strait region, Alaska
Sullivan's Bycatch Bill Wades Into Alaska's Hardest Fish Fight
Sullivan's sweeping bycatch bill targets trawl salmon catch — a real and raw grievance, even as federal science pins Alaska's river collapses mostly on a warming ocean.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min readAIAlaska
Higher-than-normal tides along western Alaska's coast through Tuesday
Higher-than-normal tides hit western Alaska's coast through Tuesday, up to 3 feet over the high tide line in Eastern Norton Sound. Move gear off the beach.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAIEastern Norton Sound, Alaska
Kawerak extends RFP deadline for construction management services in Bering Strait Region
Kawerak extended its deadline to July 31 for construction management firms to bid on transportation projects across the Bering Strait Region.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago1 min readAIBering Strait Region, Alaska
How a borrowed good-luck charm became Bering Strait ivory art
A grinning good-luck charm invented Outside became a Bering Strait ivory art form — thanks to master carver Happy Jack, who made the borrowed Billiken his own.
by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAIBering Strait
Saturday's wind split the Bering Sea fleet by boat size
Saturday's 45-knot gusts appear to have split the Bering Sea fleet — small set-netters in, big drift boats out — though the report's from a citizen post, not an agency.
by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAIBering Sea
Kawerak's mentors help Bering Strait students through the leap to college
Kawerak pairs new college students from Bering Strait villages with mentors who've made the same leap — celebrating small wins and, for one, a chance to study in Japan.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago2 min readAIBering Strait Region, Alaska
A half-acre fire near Golovin tests a new federal firefighting agency
A half-acre lightning fire near Golovin isn't threatening homes or subsistence allotments, and rain may help. Two smokejumpers went in — an early test of a new federal agency.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4w ago1 min readAIGolovin, Alaska
Aleut & Bering Straights, scholarship deadlines arrive this summer
Two Alaska Native corporations have summer scholarship deadlines — part of how ANCSA's land-settlement corporations quietly fund the education of the generations that followed.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
BSNC placed 16 interns across its operations — building homegrown management
Bering Straits Native Corporation placed 16 interns across its operations this summer, including returning participants pursuing business degrees, to build management talent from shareholders and descendants in the region.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 1mo ago2 min readAIAlaska
Kawerak hauls 4,000 pounds of e-waste out of Nome
Nome shipped 4,000 pounds of old electronics to the Lower 48 — because rural Alaska's unlined landfills can't safely hold the poison inside them, so the only option is to haul it out.
by Alaska Newsadded 4w ago2 min readAINome, Alaska
An Unalakleet playwright brings Alaska's hardest truths to the stage
An Unalakleet playwright turned her work in suicide prevention into The Bird Blind — a story of abuse, addiction, and survival in an Iñupiaq village, told in its own voice.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago2 min readAIUnalakleet, Alaska
Kawerak welding course wraps up in Nome with July 25 skills check-off
Eight students from the Bering Strait Region completed a welding certification course in Nome on July 25, positioning them for jobs tied to a $399 million port expansion project starting soon.
by Bill AlaskaNewsadded 2d ago2 min readAINome, Alaska
High surf and minor flooding for Alaska's west coast through Thursday
A Bering Sea low is pushing high surf and minor flooding into Alaska's west coast through Thursday night, with water 1 to 3 feet above the normal high tide line.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAINorton Sound and Yukon Delta, Alaska
King salmon sport fishing closed in Norton Sound fresh waters
Alaska closed sport king salmon fishing in Norton Sound fresh waters and requires immediate release of any hooked incidentally.
by Bill AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAINorton Sound, Alaska
