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The East Fork Fire, currently burning in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, is the largest fire on record in the area, having burned some 125,000 acres so far, according to Rick Thoman, a climate specialist with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Thanksgiving weekend will be windy with temperatures dipping into the single digits. Travel conditions will be favorable, with no snow forecast until next week.

As of April 18, the fire had grown to more than 4,048 acres. It’s burning 25 miles east of Kwethluk, 34 miles southeast of Bethel, and 35 miles southeast of Napakiak. The cause of the fire is unknown.

People living in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta felt something unusual this past holiday weekend: a heat wave. Temperatures crept close to 90 degrees in many…

Storms battered the southern Bering Sea and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta last month. February storms aren’t unusual, but the amount of rain and flooding is.…

Recent storms have battered the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta coast and dumped multiple feet of snow in some places. Some are saying that this is more snow than…

Western Alaska, a region already known for its high winds, is projected to get even windier. In communities along rivers or the coast, that could…

The storm that slammed into western Alaska over the weekend was the result of several factors all converging to make it so destructive.

The largest tundra fire in the history of the Lower Yukon valley is burning eight miles from the city of St. Mary’s. On the coast, another fire is burning within five miles of the communities of Tununak and Toksook Bay.

Federal cuts to the National Weather Service caused the termination, then tentative reinstatement, of a social scientist position in Bethel. The position would be a return to a time of community engagement on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, one lost due to cuts in the past.