ANCSA regional corporation for the Bering Strait region (Nome area); Inupiat, Yupik, and St. Lawrence Island Yupik shareholders
110 Front St # 300, Nome, AK 99762, USA
An Anchorage company will run the ATF's supply operation
Bering Global Solutions of Anchorage won a $5.31 million contract to run the ATF's supply and distribution center in Brunswick, Georgia, through August 2028.

Nome to host 2030 Inuit Circumpolar Council General Assembly
Kawerak and Bering Straits Native Corporation announced Thursday they will co-host the 16th Inuit Circumpolar Council General Assembly in Nome in 2030, drawing about 400 people from Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Chukotka in Russia. Nome last hosted in 1995.

Two Bering Straits directors retire. One seat goes to shareholders, one to the board.
Bering Straits Native Corporation directors Eugene Asicksik of Shaktoolik and Tony A. Weyiouanna, Sr. of Nome and Shishmaref are retiring. Weyiouanna's seat goes to the 2026 board election; Asicksik's will be filled by board appointment.

ATF places $10 million more in supply orders with Anchorage's Bering Global Solutions
The Government Accountability Office denied incumbent Aurora Industries' protest of an ATF distribution and supply contract awarded to Anchorage-based Bering Global Solutions, finding Aurora's own pricing spreadsheet defective. Two task orders totaling about $10 million began Aug. 28.

Bering Straits shareholders will get $13.50 a share, its highest regular payout
The Beringia Settlement Trust Board declared a 2026 regular distribution of $13.50 per share and a $1,600 Elder distribution, paid tax-free on or before Nov. 15. Shareholders must verify deposit and mailing details by Oct. 15.

A Bering Strait Native corporation will staff anti-trafficking work for the State Department
The U.S. Department of State awarded $647,186 to Anchorage-based Bering Straits Professional Services, LLC for a research analyst tied to trafficking-in-persons work, a one-year order running Sept. 21, 2026, through Sept. 20, 2027.

Bering Straits firm wins environmental work at four Air Force bases
Bering Straits Professional Services won a $1.22 million contract for fence-to-fence environmental compliance at Grand Forks, Ellsworth, Minot and Offutt Air Force bases.

Bering Straits bets big on federal contracting, just as the business gets harder
Bering Straits Native Corporation acquired Alakaʻina's nine federal-contracting firms, growing past 4,000 employees — a bet on government work as awards to Native-owned 8(a) firms fall sharply in 2026.

An Unalakleet playwright brings Alaska's hardest truths to the stage
Unalakleet playwright Kira Eckenweiler premiered The Bird Blind, an Iñupiaq village story of abuse and addiction, drawing on her own work in behavioral health and suicide prevention.

Bering Straits promotes a shareholder into its executive ranks
Bering Straits Native Corporation promoted Nome shareholder Brittany Daletas to VP of operations — part of a broader effort by Alaska Native corporations to move shareholders into executive leadership.

Aleut & Bering Straights, scholarship deadlines arrive this summer
Bering Straits Native Corporation shareholders face a June 30 Beringia Settlement Trust scholarship deadline, while Aleut Corporation shareholders and registered descendants have until July 31 to apply for two Aleut Foundation awards, including a $12,500 accounting scholarship.

BSNC placed 16 interns across its operations — building homegrown management
Bering Straits Native Corporation placed 16 shareholder and descendant interns across its operations this summer — part of the ANC's workforce pipeline
