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Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic DevelopmentAfter pleading guilty to manslaughter, a Bethel judge sentenced Richard Pitka to 20 years in jail, with five years suspended for the shooting and killing of Russian Mission resident Patrick Changsak in his home. -
MaryCait Dolan/KYUKState drug investigators arrested 25-year-old Krista Waskey at a home in Bethel after she allegedly retrieved a package they had planted an electronic monitoring device inside of. Police said a second suspect, 49-year-old Renardo Stewart, escaped through a second-story window. -
Jeron Joseph/Anchorage MuseumJeron Joseph’s "Sacred Ground" exhibit opens at the Anchorage Museum this week. -
Alaska DOCLast week, a Bethel grand jury indicted Robert Alexia on murder charges in the death of 81-year-old Nick Alexia Sr., who previously served as first tribal chief in the upper Kuskokwim River community. -
Elias Komulainen/KYUKThe Eek boys beat out the Napaskiak Hawks to punch their ticket to state for the first time ever on March 3 in the 38th Annual Coastal Conference 1A Tournament in Bethel. For the girls, the Kasigluk-Akiuk Lady Grizzlies beat the Tuntutuliak Lady Blue Jays to head to state for the second year in a row. -
Katie Baldwin Basile/KYUKNo injuries have been reported for a pilot and five passengers aboard the Gippsland GA-8 after its door became unlatched and separated from the aircraft minutes before safely landing in Bethel on the evening of Saturday, Feb. 28. -
Courtesy of the Lower Kuskokwim School DistrictJason Hlasny, a former Lower Kuskokwim School District school psychologist, is returning as the district’s new superintendent. -
Katie Baldwin BasileThe Akiak musher completed the roughly 20-mile trip to the mouth of the Gweek River and back in 1 hour and 18 minutes to take home $3,400.
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Rural Alaska districts are especially reliant on international teachers to keep instructors in their classrooms. -
Applicants who have received denial letters by mail or email have 60 days to appeal the decision. In cases where documents are missing, applicants can either upload them to their FEMA application or include them with appeal letters. -
Following a request from the state and the transfer of a surplus grader, crews were able to plow the road roughly 40 miles beyond its normal southernmost point to reach Tuntutuliak for the first time since 2020. -
The documentary series “Lost Women of Alaska” now airing on HBO examines the crisis through the investigation of an Anchorage serial killer and how local police handled the case. -
The Y-K Delta’s first ever comic convention included visiting artists, comic book vendors, and lots of cosplay. -
Thomas Dyment and Hayden Lieb are being honored for their excellence in wrestling.
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The ACLU Alaska is suing the Alaska Department of Corrections on behalf of a man who said he was forcibly medicated with powerful psychotropic medication for most of the past seven years. -
It starts with the ceremonial start in Anchorage on Saturday. -
The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating the death of a crabber who fell overboard near Dutch Harbor last week. -
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