Sage Smiley
News DirectorSage Smiley is KYUK's news director. She’s worked with audio since she was a teenager at radio stations from Alaska to Amman and is passionate about sound-rich storytelling, rural radio and community-centered journalism. When not slinging a shotgun microphone around the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, she can likely be found in or around a body of water.
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Rep. Nick Begich III visited upper and middle Kuskokwim communities this week, making stops in Aniak and Bethel, as well as other smaller villages upriver. While in Bethel, he sat down at KYUK with news director Sage Smiley for a conversation. -
Mark Springer is one of three regular candidates running for four seats on Bethel City Council. He sat down with KYUK to talk about his motivation for running for office and what he wants to focus on in the community. -
The State of Alaska wants the United States Supreme Court to decide whether rural Alaskans – which includes many Alaska Native people – should maintain subsistence fishing preference in the waterways of federal lands. -
A Mekoryuk man has been sentenced to more than 150 years in prison for sexual assault and sexual abuse. The state says it may be the longest sentence for those types of crimes handed down in the history of Alaska. -
Bethel’s public safety department, which oversees the city’s police and fire departments, is under new leadership, effective immediately. -
For the first time in years, students in Napakiak are at school under the same roof, in a school building that’s safe from the encroaching erosion of the Kuskokwim River. -
Three candidates have filed to run for the four open seats on Bethel City Council. That leaves a seat open for the possibility of a write-in campaign. -
Local election season is underway, as candidate filing periods have opened in many municipalities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. -
In the past decade, Bethel has increasingly relied on a policing system where officers work for two weeks, then take two weeks off. This lets some officers commute from thousands of miles away. And while the system helps with staffing, some victims of crime see it as the root of a problem. -
For the second year in a row, a woman from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region has been crowned Miss World Eskimo-Indian Olympics. This year’s winner, Joeli Angukaranaq Carlson, ran on a platform inspired by her own life.
