For many in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the crisis of unsolved missing and murdered Indigenous people’s cases is personal. And on Monday, May 5, a group of 50 residents marched along Bethel’s main highway in honor of the national day of awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous people.

Scientists worry as services that provided detailed and historic information about sea ice, snowpack, glaciers, and other Arctic conditions are being discontinued.

UPDATE: The National Weather Service has canceled the flood warning for Kalskag.While the river ice in front of Bethel has officially broken up, a flood warning remains in place until the evening of May 7 roughly 90 miles up the Kuskokwim River at Kalskag. An ice jam has sent water over the road connecting the lower and upper sections of the community.

Bethel’s Kuskokwim Ice Classic tripod tripped the clock at 4:10 p.m. on May 5, 2025, marking breakup in Bethel. That’s three days earlier than breakup at Bethel last year.

Seventeen-year-old James J. McMillen died in Bethel after police say a snowmachine he was driving sank in a pond and he was unable to swim to safety late Saturday evening (May 3).

Residents of Bethel took part in an international protest focused on workers' rights as well as the policies of the Trump Administration this week (May 1).

The class action lawsuit alleges the state has placed foster kids at risk and seeks system-wide reforms.

Duop Tharjiath, 29, had been held at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute for more than five years when he died there in March.

Researchers are studying rockslide risk in the tourism-dependent town as part of a regional effort to help seven tribal governments understand and respond to local geohazards.

Doug Huntman got his turtle when he was 12. “Obviously I have a lot of gray hair on my face now,” he says. “I'm 55, so that is a long time to have a pet.”