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Napaskiak man arrested after troopers say he pulled a handgun on VPSO
Troopers say a Napaskiak man pulled a handgun on a village public safety officer answering an assault call Friday. He was arrested at a nearby fish camp.
by Walter AlaskaNews3m ago1 min read
Kuskokwim Corporation hosts first Evening with an Elder on Zoom Oct. 1
The Kuskokwim Corporation hosts its first Evening with an Elder on Zoom Oct. 1, with Jennie Zaukar and Ann Fienup-Riordan, as it marks 50 years.
by Maggie AlaskaNews5h ago1 min read
Native Village of Paimiut gets $900,000 to teach the Hooper Bay dialect of Yup'ik
The Native Village of Paimiut gets $900,000 to teach the Hooper Bay dialect of Yup'ik. The tribe says 72 elders are its last first-language speakers.
by Maggie AlaskaNews7h ago2 min read
Bethel police warn residents not to shoot suspected rabid animals in the head
Bethel police warn residents to avoid shooting suspected rabid animals in the head, since brain tissue is needed to confirm the disease. Two foxes in Bethel tested positive for rabies in February.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2d ago1 min read
YKHC names interim chief Patricia Smith as permanent president and CEO
Patricia Smith, YKHC's interim chief since April and a nearly 30-year employee, is now the Bethel tribal health corporation's permanent CEO.
by Walter AlaskaNews2d ago2 min read
Weather service cancels flood watch for Bethel, Kwethluk and nearby Kuskokwim villages
The weather service canceled its flood watch for Bethel, Kwethluk and nearby villages Friday, plus a coastal warning. The river is still high for the season.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2d ago2 min read
Coastal flood warning for Kipnuk and Kwigillingok canceled as storm tracks south
The storm passed south of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, and the coastal flood warning was canceled Friday night. Earlier river flooding hit Kasigluk and Kwethluk.
by Walter AlaskaNews3d ago2 min read
Aniak's Bush-Tell has drawn more than $12 million in federal support to serve river villages
An Aniak phone company has drawn more than $12 million in federal support to keep calls and internet running in villages along the Kuskokwim and Yukon.
by Melinda Communities.News3d ago2 min read
Kipnuk and Kwigillingok face coastal flooding as rain threatens Kwethluk and Kasigluk again
Kipnuk and Kwigillingok are under a coastal flood warning through Saturday, and rain could flood Kwethluk and Kasigluk again after last week's high water.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 5d ago2 min read
Palmer pilot and Michigan passenger killed in eastern Alaska plane crash
Two people died when a Piper Super Cub went down in eastern Alaska on Sept. 17, two days after a separate crash near Aniak killed two men.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 6d ago1 min read
Bethel would lease city lots to a fiber contractor without taking bids
Bethel would lease six city lots to a fiber contractor for $201,600 without bids, and nothing in the packet shows how the price was set.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
Bethel council to authorize $5,200 culvert easements the city signed months ago
Bethel City Council takes up an ordinance Tuesday authorizing $5,200 in perpetual culvert easements along Ptarmigan Road that the city manager already signed in May and June, with a public hearing Oct. 13.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
NWS tracks Bering Sea low that could raise Yukon Delta water 1 to 3 feet
A Bering Sea low pressure system could raise water 1 to 3 feet above normal along the southern Yukon Delta coast Thursday through Saturday, with an advisory in effect until Tuesday afternoon.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
Aniak basketball still plays as the Halfbreeds
Aniak basketball still uses a nickname students chose in the late 1970s to express the community's mixed Alaska Native and white ancestry.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
Search continues for missing Akiachak boater Jonathan Lomack
Jonathan Lomack, 59, of Akiachak, has been missing on the Kuskokwim River since Tuesday night, with his boat found empty and search crews from three communities now in their third day looking for him.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
Bethel's dock wall is failing and the Port Commission hasn't taken it up
The Corps warned Bethel that its City Dock wall is shifting out of alignment. The Port Commission hasn't managed to discuss it in seven months.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
Kuskokwim closures lifted because the coho run ended, not because it recovered
Six weeks of Kuskokwim subsistence closures lifted Friday, not because the coho finally came back but because the run is over for the year.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
Petition would vacate Eek Street; comment by Oct. 20 or lose the right to object
A public street in Eek would become private property of the city and AVEC, no one has said why, and anyone who wants to object later has to speak up by Oct. 20.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
Bethel council to vote Sept. 22 on paying utilities for Atsaq Place supportive housing
Bethel City Council votes Sept. 22 on paying water, sewer and waste utilities for Atsaq Place supportive housing, a 24-unit shelter for people experiencing homelessness.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
Bethel flooding is forecast to return with Thursday morning's tide
The Kuskokwim River pushed water into low-lying Bethel this week and is expected to rise again Thursday, as onshore winds hold it back from draining.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
Two missing after boat overturns near Bethel
Two people are missing after a boat overturned near Bethel on Tuesday afternoon. Search and rescue efforts are ongoing.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
Two men die in a plane crash near Aniak, Troopers say
Two men were killed when a small plane crashed after taking off from a moose camp near Aniak, Alaska State Troopers said.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
A Bering Sea storm brings flooding and high winds to the Y-K Delta
A Bering Sea storm is bringing coastal flooding and damaging winds to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, including Kipnuk, still rebuilding from last year's typhoon.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
Kipnuk households paid $18 million; no village infrastructure project
Kipnuk families got $18 million in disaster aid after losing 153 homes, but almost none of the money to rebuild roads, water and public buildings has come.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
A Tanana company will dig diesel out from under old BIA school sites
The government left diesel in the ground under old BIA schools in Western Alaska. It is paying a Tanana company $247,786 to dig some of it out.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
Bethel judge sentences Wassillie Brink to 30 years in Kasigluk assault
A man with a prior conviction for sexual abuse of a minor got 22 years to serve for a 2022 assault in Kasigluk. Western Alaska's rate is double the state's.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min read
Bethel's water plant has been sending filter backwash onto open ground
Water flushed from Bethel's treatment filters has been running onto the tundra instead of into the sewer lagoon. The city does not say for how long.
by Melinda Communities.News2w ago2 min read
Pilot uninjured after plane flips during off-airport landing in Caribou Hills
A pilot walked away uninjured after flipping his plane during an off-airport landing in the Caribou Hills, and was flown back to Soldotna by helicopter.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min read
Rabies is climbing among wildlife across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
Rabies is rising among Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta wildlife. Foxes come in to den in village landfills in late winter, and rural dogs live outdoors.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
A $2 fix could cut $49,944 a year off Bethel's fitness center energy bill
Two dollars. That is what Bethel would have to spend to cut nearly $50,000 a year off the fitness center energy bill, according to an audit.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
The roof went on wrong at Bethel's gym expansion and has to come off
The roof and walls went on wrong at Bethel's gym expansion. They come back off at no cost to the city, and nobody has set a new completion date.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
10 Kuskokwim Delta villages named in flood outlooks for Friday
High water coming down the Kuskokwim meets storm surge pushing up it at Friday's high tide. Ten western Alaska villages could see flooding or erosion.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
A Tyonek man died Saturday after neighbors heard gunshots
A Tyonek man died Saturday after neighbors heard gunshots and found him wounded. The state medical examiner has not determined a cause of death.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min read
Bethel shut off the water at a house leaking sewage and it came back on
Bethel shut off the water at a house leaking sewage. The resident turned it back on the next day, and the repair deadline has now passed too.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
The Kuskokwim Delta's high tides have passed. Forecasters expected no flooding.
High tides Friday and Saturday will peak a foot above normal along the Kuskokwim Delta, but forecasters expect no flooding in Kipnuk, Kwigillingok, Kongiganak and Quinhagak.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
Bethel's deadline to fix a sewage leak passed two weeks ago
Untreated sewage is leaking onto the ground at a Bethel house. The city's repair deadline passed two weeks ago with no word on whether it was met.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
Bethel Fire Department recruits nationally for a captain and firefighters
Bethel Fire Department is recruiting a captain and firefighters nationally to fill gaps in its eight-person career staff serving over 6,000 residents.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
Forecasters flag Kwigillingok as water rises along the Kuskokwim Delta coast
Water along the Kuskokwim Delta coast is forecast 1 to 2 feet above normal high tide, with forecasters flagging Kwigillingok as most exposed to this front.
by Maggie AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
Bethel council to take up a holiday rescheduling rule, in a code section that does not set meeting dates
Bethel's city council could reschedule meetings that fall on holidays under an ordinance introduced Tuesday, Sept. 8.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
Chugachmiut's Sugt'stun language game gets new gameplay footage
Nunaka means my village in Sugt'stun. It is also a free game teaching the language to children in a region where fluent speakers are dwindling.
by Alaska News3w ago2 min read
