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GCI says cellular provider AT&T is to blame for the missed calls, while AT&T puts the blame on an unnamed third party. It’s not clear how many calls GCI customers missed because of the interruption.
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Communications company GCI says the fiber optic internet project will bring urban speeds and pricing to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and be a vast departure from its current network.
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This June, without official warning, residents in the village of Aniak received electricity bills that were four times the rate of the prior month. Residents. businesses, and the schools say that they don’t know how they will afford to keep the lights on now.
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Notice a problem? A large-scale internet and cell service outage in the area is hampering KYUK services. This is causing issues with everything from our ability to provide NPR programming to our website and online stream.
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The number of Kuskokwim River Tribes challenging the federal permits for the Donlin Gold project in court has doubled from three to six. They say the process was flawed and that Tribal consultation was inadequate. They want the court to order the feds to take a closer look.
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The Native Village of Kwigillingok has joined other Kuskokwim region tribes in a federal lawsuit challenging the permits awarded to the proposed Donlin Gold mine.
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Bethel was the site of a VIP visit yesterday, when the first lady of the United States of America, Dr. Jill Biden, and the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, both came to town, mainly to tout a telecommunications project funded with federal infrastructure money. A part of Bethel Regional High School was secured to receive the dignitaries.
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Bethel’s Acting City Finance Director, Xavier Mason, is urging the public to pay bills for sales tax and utilities online.
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A bus station in Ninilchik has the potential to become a small Native reservation — but the state of Alaska is pushing back. A lawsuit playing out in Juneau could impact the Ninilchik tribe’s bid for sovereignty and protection of its bus services.
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A state court judge heard arguments earlier this month from a group of Y-K Delta tribes and environmental groups that are challenging state permits issued for a pipeline that would power the Donlin Gold mine.
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There’s a shortage of eggs in Bethel-area grocery stores, and in rural areas milk is hard to find on the shelves. Store managers are blaming avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu.
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The new project will lay 405 miles of fiber optic cable from Dillingham to Bethel and nine other communities in the area.