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Oct. 7 is local election day for many communities in Alaska. And for much of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, it’s also election day for Rural Education Attendance Area school boards.
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The Oct. 1 event hosted by the Tundra Women's Coalition for Domestic Violence Awareness Month highlighted a crisis that continues to reverberate across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
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The council, which manages fisheries in federal waters off Alaska, shifted to an online-only October meeting and now may postpone some of its planned work.
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KYUK will host a forum for city council candidates later this week — 7 p.m. on Oct. 2. There are three traditional candidates and one write-in candidate running for the four available seats on Bethel’s city council.
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Bethel Police say one or more trespassers entered a private property near the highway and burned a Pride flag displayed there some time on Wednesday, Sept. 24.
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Greg Schiedler is a certified write-in candidate running alongside three regular candidates for four seats on the Bethel City Council. He spoke with KYUK about his motivation for running for office and what he says he can bring to the table.
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On Sept. 25, leaders from 16 communities across the Y-K Delta gathered in Bethel to refine emergency response plans.
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A contractor that helped to restore power in Mertarvik was en route to Akiak on Sept. 28 as many in the upriver community continue to rely on personal generators.
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The short and straightforward report published in the journal Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (AAAR) seeks to sum up a long-term, complex issue.
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The vote was the second successful veto override after lawmakers convened Saturday for a special session called by Dunleavy.
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In the past decade, Bethel has increasingly relied on a policing system where officers work for two weeks, then take two weeks off. This lets some officers commute from thousands of miles away. And while the system helps with staffing, some victims of crime see it as the root of a problem.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal money to public media stations, says it's winding down operations after President Trump signed a law rescinding all funding.
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Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than a third of that.
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For the second year in a row, a woman from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region has been crowned Miss World Eskimo-Indian Olympics. This year’s winner, Joeli Angukaranaq Carlson, ran on a platform inspired by her own life.
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Noel Perez Delgado learned to paint from a Catholic nun at Brother Francis Shelter. Now, his brightly colored paintings are featured in a First Friday exhibit.
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Southwest will offer daily nonstop flights between Anchorage International Airport and Denver and Las Vegas starting in May.
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Months after losing federal money, the Interior Department steps forward with a one-year reprieve. Meanwhile, stations like KUCB in Unalaska are basking in love from afar.
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A judge denied a group of homeschool parents' effort to dismiss the case, saying a Supreme Court ruling requires a closer look at how allotments are spent in practice.
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