Emily Schwing
News 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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KYUK reporter Emily Schwing has spent the last two and a half years digging into the relocation of Newtok to Mertarvik, the money that’s been spent, and the infrastructure on both sides of the river. She sat down with KYUK News Director Sage Smiley to talk about some of her findings. -
Funding cuts made by the Trump Administration mean the community of Mertarvik will go without new housing construction for the third consecutive summer. -
This village’s climate relocation was supposed to be a “blueprint” for climate change response. Some experts say it’s a cautionary tale. -
Newtok’s residents have finally relocated, only to find themselves in a situation they tried to fleeSome federally funded housing in the Bering Sea coastal community is moldy and does not meet minimum code requirements, according to a housing inspection report commissioned by KYUK. -
They waited decades for safe, healthy housing, but for many who have made the move from Newtok to Mertarvik, that dream still hasn’t become reality. -
The project’s challenges highlight how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to the way climate change is making some places uninhabitable. -
KYUK and ProPublica launched a project highlighting the public health and safety crisis inside Alaska’s rural public schools this month, kicking off a discussion among lawmakers on the powerful Senate Finance Committee. -
Nunacuarni school district-aat akikiterkaat kitugutkanun state-amek kingunengqelartuq. Taugam allrakut yuinaq talliman cipluki, Alaska-mi alerquuciurcet nallungualarait amlleret ikayungcaucet elitnaurvignek nunamta nutem yukekain elitnaurviit. -
Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests from public schools that primarily serve Indigenous children. -
This week, KYUK will release the first part of an investigation with ProPublica that looks at infrastructure issues in rural Alaska schools.
