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With no obvious source of revenue, the motives for hoovering up a wide range of Alaska and Bethel-specific content remain unclear.
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Community members who reported hearing gunfire on July 25 banded together to put out the blaze, but troopers have not yet said whether the remains are those of the alleged shooter.
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Over roughly five years of flying out of Kotzebue to locations on the Baldwin and Seward Peninsulas to conduct research, the team has noticed dramatic changes in the landscape.
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A college student from Bethel and Emmonak has been crowned Miss World Eskimo Indian Olympics. She said that she’s driven by a desire to practice and share traditional ways of life.
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In dozens of publications, Marie Meade, Ann Fienup-Riordan, and Alice Rearden have established themselves as tours de force documenting first-hand accounts of Elders across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
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This year, some of the program participants traveled to the rural hub communities of Bethel, Kodiak, and Dillingham. A group also went to Utqiaġvik during Nalukataq, or the summer whaling festival. In Kotzebue, the teens learned about edible wild plants, cut and jarred dried, black seal meat in oil, and helped build drying racks for hanging fish.
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A recent report from the Government Accountability Office calls on federal managers to increase the number of observers on fishing vessels and develop better ways to track and monitor bycatch.
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Over the weekend, high temperatures recorded at the Bethel Airport were in the 40s. That’s around 15 degrees below normal. It’s the first time in more than 50 years that Bethel has seen back-to-back July days with highs that didn’t top 50 degrees.
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In the case of chinook and chum salmon bycatch, the report says improved stock identification methods need to be a research priority.
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Last month, Akiachak Native Community cut the ribbon on a brand new health clinic. Village health aides say the new, larger space will help them to better serve the community.
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The U.S. Coast Guard encountered four People’s Republic of China military warships in the Bering Sea over the weekend.The foreign vessels were following international law, and told Coast Guard personnel they were practicing “freedom of navigation operations.”
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In its recent meeting, the Kuskokwim River Salmon Management Working Group approved a letter requesting an expanded conservation zone off-limits to trawling.