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Gabby Hiestand Salgado/KYUKHow the Lower Kuskokwim School District and community members are keeping local basketball teams going, even far from home. -
Alaska National GuardThe tribal government in Kipnuk, one of the communities hardest hit by the October 2025 storm, is exploring sentiment and options for relocation to safer ground. -
Christopher E. Zimmer/ShutterstockThe April 3 deadline applies to individual assistance through FEMA, the state, and for federal Small Business Administration loans. -
Emily Schwing/KYUKTroopers say that 23-year old Andrew Tall turned himself in to a village police officer in the community on Feb. 18. Tall has been charged with five counts of felony assault, one count of kidnapping, and one count of misdemeanor assault for alleged crimes a week earlier involving six people, including a minor. -
Katie BasileThe 2019 champ announced his decision to compete on Feb 16. It’ll be his 15th time running the long-distance race from Willow to Nome. -
Corinne Smith/Alaska BeaconA delegation of lawmakers made an impromptu visit to the school on Feb. 6, calling the conditions and deteriorating facilities "deplorable." -
Gabby Hiestand Salgado/KYUKBoys and girls teams from Eek, Kongiganak, Tuntutuliak, Quinhagak, Kwigillingok, and Kipnuk competed in the 1A Midcoast League basketball tournament. -
Alaska DOCJonathan Owens, 42, has been charged with second-degree murder in the Feb. 15 shooting death of 54-year-old Tuluksak resident Nelson Hawk at a fish camp near the community.
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In 2025, Williams Jr. won the race for the first time in two decades. This year, the Akiak musher and his team have hit their stride, coming off a third-place finish in the Kuskokwim 300 and multiple sprint race victories. -
Pavila and his 10 dogs made the run up to the race’s sole checkpoint in 5 hours and 57 minutes. They arrived at Bogus Creek at 10:57 p.m., 2 minutes ahead of Michael Larson of Kwethluk, who arrived at Bogus Creek at 10:59 p.m. -
Eleven teams took off in a mass start from the Bethel riverfront under blue skies for the run to Bogus Creek and back. This year’s field doesn’t include any rookies, but it does include a handful of longtime race veterans and the race’s winningest musher. -
On Feb. 12, a Bethel jury convicted Jonathan Murphy of misdemeanor assault, providing false information, and tampering with public records for a 2023 incident in which 44-year-old Bernard Mael was severely beaten following a traffic stop and pursuit. -
Kwigillingok's repair is underway. But community members say the 'way it was' is not the way forwardRepair efforts in Kwigillingok have been ongoing since Typhoon Halong hit in October. But relocation remains a long-term goal for the community. -
The mass start of the 2026 Bogus Creek 150 is scheduled to take place in front of the small boat harbor on the Bethel riverfront at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14.
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The new version strips out an unpopular sales tax and substantially rewrites the state's oil and gas tax code to extract more revenue from the industry. -
For now, with the failure of a three-quarters vote necessary to access state savings, the bill has no way to pay for the expenses it calls for. -
A repeal measure will appear on the ballot this year. What it says, exactly, is in dispute. -
Seal finger is not uncommon in Alaska and circumpolar regions, but this is only the second time this potentially more serious strain of the infection has been identified in the state.
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