Alaska State News

The parents of the 20-year-old whose body was found in Bethel in November 2023 under suspicious circumstances are suing for alleged negligence, discrimination, and emotional distress.

The Kuskokwim Delta community evacuated dozens of residents and welcomed in dozens from nearby coastal villages hit hardest by the storm. As cold weather arrives, many still don't know if their homes will be livable again.

The Alaska Federation of Natives annual convention took place last weekend in Anchorage, as hundreds of evacuees from communities impacted by the remnants of Typhoon Halong arrived at emergency shelters nearby.

Police and search and rescue crews are requesting the public’s assistance in locating 34-year-old Randy Jimmie, who has been missing in Bethel for two weeks.

During the storm, wind speeds on the island reached 100 miles per hour and caused massive flooding of low-lying areas, floating homes off their foundations in Nightmute and destroying the subsistence site known as Umkumiut.

Severe erosion in the coastal community has put critical infrastructure in peril and destroyed a vital archaeological lens into the past.

Half a dozen helicopter crews and other aircrafts have worked since the weekend to move people and supplies where they’re needed in the storm-battered Kuskokwim Delta.

People from Kwigillingok and Kipnuk were evacuated to a 100-bed shelter set up at Bethel’s National Guard Armory. Local and regional organizations are collecting donations and fundraising to support families impacted by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.

The woman, whose name has not been released publicly, was found on Monday. Troopers are actively searching for two other people who are still missing from Kwigillingok.

The three people unaccounted for are from Kwigillingok, one of the communities devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.