Samantha Watson
News ReporterSamantha (she/her) is a news reporter at KYUK. Originally from Massachusetts, she attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Maine where she figured out that if she could be a reporter, she could make a career out of having interesting conversations. When away from her microphone, Samantha can be found writing, hiking, and playing the guitar.
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The spring hunt of any waterfowl except scoters will be closed beginning May 30 at 12:01 a.m. through midnight on June 29. Scoter harvest will be closed between June 4 and July 4.
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The newly-revived Bethel Actors Guild is putting on a free outdoor production of Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer Night’s Dream." The community play is the first of its kind to be put on in the Y-K Delta in many years. -
Off the road system, any big event requires a unique set of logistics. For the upcoming glorification of St. Olga in the Kuskokwim community of Kwethluk, such logistics include volunteer ferrymen and a lineup of cooks. -
A Bethel songwriter started his career with a risk, and 15 years later it’s still paying off. Members of the folk-rock group Great Elk are reuniting for an Alaska tour featuring a set of new songs, beginning with a show in Bethel. -
Pomp and circumstance, enthusiastic applause, and yuraq made for a very Y-K Delta-sounding graduation at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Kuskokwim Campus graduation on May 9. The satellite campus celebrated its 51st graduating class. -
The 2025 Kuskokwim Ice Classic tripod tripped the breakup clock on Monday, May 5, deciding one jackpot winner and four minute madness victors. But in an unusual twist of events, three of the five winners are related. The occurrence is far from a conspiracy — it just all comes down to a lucky number. -
For many in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the crisis of unsolved missing and murdered Indigenous people’s cases is personal. And on Monday, May 5, a group of 50 residents marched along Bethel’s main highway in honor of the national day of awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous people. -
Residents of Bethel took part in an international protest focused on workers' rights as well as the policies of the Trump Administration this week (May 1). -
Bethel’s museum of Yup’ik, Cup’ik, and Dene artifacts has reopened after being closed for years. -
A film that focuses on the history of the Russian Orthodox faith in Alaska was screened in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta for the first time since it premiered two years ago. Sacred Alaska heavily features the Yup'ik communities of Kwethluk and Bethel.
