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One of the strongest storms in living memory to hit Alaska’s west coast helped push the community’s infrastructure well beyond its limits.
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While earrings have been made and worn in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta for centuries, the region has seen an increase in the number of artists and variety of styles over the last few years. Many artists credit long days in COVID-19 lockdown as the birthplace of their art form, while others say that they started making earrings to explore their heritage, or to relax after a long day of working and parenting.
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Two of three families were living temporarily in low-income housing after the storm, but those leases ran out at the end of October 2023.
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After an intensive month-long search, Bethel Search and Rescue found 20-year-old Michael Isaac of Marshall deceased under the ice in Brown's Slough. Isaac’s father, Jason Isaac, confirmed Michael’s death to KYUK. Now he’s headed home to Marshall.
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The move is part of a decades-long effort to relocate Newtok residents away from sinking land and melting permafrost.
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Bethel Police Chief Leonard “Pete” Hicks will be leaving his position at the end of the year.
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There are shipping containers stacked all over Bethel, but the three stacked containers on a lot next to Bethel’s dog pound and the city's sewage lagoon aren’t like any others.They’re meant to be set on fire.
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Simultaneous warming trends in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska appear to have come as a double whammy for juvenile chum salmon.
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Around the same time every year, Gladys Jung Elementary hosts the last wrestling tournament of the season. It’s for elementary and middle school-aged kids across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The top wrestling team results this year were unexpected.
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Bethel’s tribe received over a million dollars to improve recycling. Now they’re planning to purchase can crushers, remove e-waste, and start a community composting program.
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Bethel Regional High School wrestlers traveled to Anchorage to compete in the Grace Grizzly Shakedown tournament at the Grace Christian School on Dec. 1 and 2.
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After more than 25 years, the event is critical for keeping the volunteer organization running.
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The majority of Alaska’s Bristol Bay commercial red king crab have been caught for the season. This year’s quota was rather low, coming in at about 2.1 million pounds for the entire fleet. To compare, that’s less than half the total allowable catch, or TAC, for the 2018/2019 season. Ethan Nichols is the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s area management biologist for groundfish and shellfish in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands region. He said even just a couple million pounds was a welcome amount for harvesters during historic lows in the state’s commercial crab industry.
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The SouthWest Alaska Arts Group has enough money to hold the full 2024 Cama-i Dance Festival after the Bethel City Council approved funding to fill a hole in its community grant program.
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The body has not been officially identified, but Bethel Police say they believe it to be 20-year-old Michael Isaac of Marshall, who has been missing since Nov. 2.
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