Fish counters show 2025 returns have again failed to meet the lower target for king salmon returns after missing the goal in 2024 as well.

No injuries have been reported after schools in Kasigluk and the community of Quinhagak locked down in separate gun calls last week. Suspects in both cases have been charged with second-degree terroristic threatening.

James Hoelscher, a former VPSO from Hooper Bay and now director of the state's Village Public Safety Officer Operations Division, says his recent recognition by the Association of Village Council Presidents for public service is a reminder that the work growing the programs has just begun.

Bethel’s public safety department, which oversees the city’s police and fire departments, is under new leadership, effective immediately.

Residents of Alaska’s bush communities often have to go without some of their favorite foods and flavors found on the road system, but one community market in Aniak has been an exception to that.

After making do with makeshift classrooms as the Kuskowkim River encroached on their old school, Napakiak students are back to school under one new roof.

It could be as late as mid-January 2026 until the gymnasium and its respective wing at Bethel Regional High School are reopened for use, coming after inspectors found significant damage to floor trusses underneath the facility last spring.

A newly updated learning space aims to grow the potential of a Bethel-based nursing education program.