Runners from around the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta hit the trails in Anchorage at the ASAA State Championships on Oct. 5. The Bethel boys team left with a finish that ties the Bethel Regional High School record.

A 20-year-old Hooper Bay resident has been arrested and charged with murder in the violent deaths of two Hooper Bay women last week, according to Alaska State Troopers.

Bethel staple Bev Hoffman served as emcee, introducing six storytellers who came to share their own funny, frightening, sad, and sometimes deeply personal stories about life in Bethel, the wider region, and even the lower 48.

The end of high school cross country season is in sight. Runners from the middle and upper Kuskokwim are headed to state this weekend after an exciting regional meet.

Bethel’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Fitness Center hosted its annual community swim meet at the end of September for the first time since the start of the pandemic.

Bethel’s local election results are set after the canvass board met on Oct. 3. Newcomer WG Anaruk will hold a one-year seat on Bethel City Council, beating Danny Suiter by 15 votes. The race for the one-year seat on the council was too close to call after the polls closed on Oct. 1.

Alaska processor Trident Seafoods announced Monday that it probably won’t be processing crab in the Pribilof Island community of St. Paul this season. That comes after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s decision to reopen the snow crab or opilio fishery after a two-year closure. The state’s announcement on Friday surprised many fishermen. It was also a surprise to Trident.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Friday afternoon that Bering Sea fishermen will be allowed to harvest a total of about 4.7 million pounds of opilio, also known as snow crab, for the first time in two years. According to Fish and Game, estimates of total mature male biomass are above the threshold required to open the fishery.

The U.S. Coast Guard spotted four foreign military vessels in the Bering Sea Saturday. Coast Guard officials say the joint patrol between Russian and Chinese ships shows their “increased interest in the Arctic.”

Bishop Nestor of Alaska and the Aleutians commissioned the two-story Victorian home in 1882. On an ill-fated Alaska voyage, however, before he was ever able to sleep in the house, Nestor fell overboard and drowned. No bishop has ever stayed in the house...until now.