According to the state’s Aug. 2 disaster declaration, the loss of the building has disrupted the community’s ability to maintain basic public safety services and emergency response.

The analysis, published Aug. 1, means that the Alaska State Troopers and most other law enforcement agencies will keep their policing policies the same as they have in recent years.

A live policing TV show is interested in featuring Bethel’s police department. This week, the Bethel City Council will vote about moving forward with the production.

The funds will go to cleaning up asbestos, contaminated sludge and soil and tar. Three sites will receive grants and the state knows of many more in need.

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.

On Tuesday, July 22, the National Transportation Safety Board released its final report on the Sept. 2023 plane crash near St. Mary’s that resulted in the death of pilot Eugene “Buzzy” Peltola Jr., 57.

The civil suit filed in Bethel Superior Court on July 18 alleges negligent actions by hunting guide Bruce Werba and two companies under Werba’s control caused Eugene "Buzzy" Peltola Jr.’s death.

Naneng’s former boyfriend, 24-year-old Edward Atcherian, has been charged with second-degree murder for Naneng’s death and is currently being held at the Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Center in Bethel.

Troopers said the man has been identified as 37-year-old Benjamin Edmund, and that they were notified on the evening of July 9 that the body had been discovered floating in a slough near the community at the mouth of the Yukon River.

The blaze in the early morning hours of July 8 was likely caused by faulty electrical wiring, according to a city administrator. No injuries have been reported.