Emily Schwing
ReporterEmily has covered land and wildlife management, wildfire and local government extensively in Alaska since 2006. She has worked all over the state, from the Chukchi Sea Coast to the Wrangell Narrows and from the Canadian Border to the Seward Peninsula.
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At a joint meeting Tuesday night, the Chevak Native Village and the City of Chevak declared a state of emergency after the remnants of Typhoon Merbok destroyed most of the community’s storage sheds that hold gear and supplies for fishing and hunting. -
Hundreds of people in Western Alaska have been unable to drink water straight from the tap this week following the storm surge from the remnants of Typhoon Merbok.
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Many people in the coastal Cup’ik community report losing fishing nets, dry houses, fish racks, and other essential subsistence equipment.
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A shortage of shotgun shells nationwide is complicating things for migratory bird hunters in Southwest Alaska, who are eager to get out after a long winter.
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There aren’t enough public health care workers in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Organizations large and small are struggling to hire providers.
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The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation is dispatching health teams to multiple villages in the Y-K Delta this month to test school-age kids for tuberculosis. Case counts are trending above average this year.
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A number of Y-K Delta region airports will receive upgrades, and one will be fully relocated this summer.
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Cool temperatures and overnight freezing are slowing down breakup this spring on most of the Kuskokwim River, but ice in the middle river is starting to shift.
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A River Watch team spent much of the weekend viewing breakup conditions along the Kuskokwim River from the air, and the news is mostly good.
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More than 125 people turned out in Bethel to hear Yup’ik artist Byron Nicholai perform music from his new album over the weekend. An enthusiastic crowd used the Yugtun word for "encore" throughout the night to hear songs in their Indigenous language.
