Thirty-six-year-old David Paul faces a minimum sentence of 65 years in prison after a Bethel jury found him guilty of 28 separate counts of sexual assault and sexual abuse involving six children.

Kasigluk resident Adrianna Tinker, 33, died after a boat she was in struck a submerged object in the Napakiak Slough on Sept. 16. The boat's operator survived uninjured, according to Alaska State Troopers.

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.

No injuries have been reported after schools in Kasigluk and the community of Quinhagak locked down in separate gun calls last week. Suspects in both cases have been charged with second-degree terroristic threatening.

James Hoelscher, a former VPSO from Hooper Bay and now director of the state's Village Public Safety Officer Operations Division, says his recent recognition by the Association of Village Council Presidents for public service is a reminder that the work growing the programs has just begun.

Bethel’s public safety department, which oversees the city’s police and fire departments, is under new leadership, effective immediately.

It could be as late as mid-January 2026 until the gymnasium and its respective wing at Bethel Regional High School are reopened for use, coming after inspectors found significant damage to floor trusses underneath the facility last spring.

On Aug. 22, the body of 72-year-old Samuel Shavings was discovered by beachcombers just outside of Nome, nearly 300 miles from where he was first reported missing.

A Kuskokwim Delta coastal flood advisory and flood watch along the Kuskokwim River are in effect.

Bethel Police had been looking for a teenage girl who was last seen this weekend along Chief Eddie Hoffman Highway.