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The U.S. Secretary of Commerce has approved a federal disaster declaration for the Kuskokwim River because of the failure of chinook, chum, and coho fisheries in 2022.
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Alaska State Troopers say video footage shows a man entering an unoccupied police station in the early morning hours, where he takes the keys to a side-by-side and later appears to take a phone call.
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Democrat Mary Peltola joined Alaska's U.S. senators on a legal brief defending the mine in a lawsuit brought by Kuskokwim tribes.
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Seybert was perhaps best known in Unalaska for recognizing the amphibious Grumman Goose’s potential for operating along the steep coastlines of the Aleutian Islands.
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Patients who died at places like Morningside Hospital in Portland were often buried there and never returned home.
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Breakup began late last week on the south fork of the Kuskokwim River in Nikolai, and other Kuskokwim communities report the beginnings of ice rot. On the Yukon, breakup is reportedly starting in Whitehorse on the Canadian side but elsewhere, the water isn't yet flowing in the open.
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Residents of Holy Cross and multiple Kuskokwim River communities reported feeling the early morning earthquake.
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KYUK reporters Evan Erickson and Emily Schwing, as well as former reporters Francisco Martínezcuello and Sunni Bean, received awards at the 2024 Alaska Press Club Awards ceremony in Anchorage on April 20. News director Sage Smiley also received awards for work at KSTK in Wrangell, Alaska.
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The state of Alaska is appealing its defeat in a lawsuit brought by the federal government over control of salmon fisheries on the Kuskokwim River in Southwest Alaska.
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Yup'ik and Inupiaq spelling bees, like the one held in Anchorage on Sat. April 13, in Anchorage, are a relatively new experience for students. But organizers of this year's statewide Native language spelling bee believe they help to boost reading and writing skills. Literacy is a big challenge for Indigenous languages that a few generations ago were never written, only spoken.
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Forecasts for chinook, chum, sockeye, and coho are mostly in line with what was seen last year.
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There are more options than ever for treating alcohol use disorder in Alaska, including several medications that can make it easier for some people to reduce or stop drinking.
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The villages of Kipnuk, Kongiganak, Kwigillingok and Quinhagak will be eligible to harvest moose in the Kuskokwim River hunt area in Unit 18.
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Peter Pan Seafood Co., the state-backed processing company that has faced dire financial troubles recently, announced Friday it was ceasing operations.
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Monte LaVelle Chitty, age 62, was arrested on April 5 in a small town in Texas by state police and U.S. Marshals, after attempting to flee child-abuse related charges in the Florida Keys. He was arrested in March and charged with two felonies involving a 15-year-old girl from the Baptist church he was leading in Marathon, Florida. Those include sexual battery and lewd and lascivious molestation, and a misdemeanor of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.Chitty was also a former Alaska Village Public Safety Officer in the Aleutian region for several years and a pastor in Cold Bay for a short period. He moved to Alaska and began leading the Cold Bay Chapel in 2010.
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