Orutsararmiut Native Council

For 56 communities across the region reliant on federal funds to support critical infrastructure and essential services, cuts at any level could have severe consequences.

The Orutsararmiut Traditional Native Council (ONC) has announced that non-Bethel members will be excluded from voting on 19 proposed amendments to the tribe’s constitution, the details of which have not been made public.

In November, the partial remains of four Yup’ik inhabitants of the Bethel area were finally laid to rest by the Orutsararmiut Traditional Native Council (ONC). The remains had been stored at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for more than a century.

Six tribes from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta sued the federal government over its environmental analysis of the proposed Donlin Gold project. A federal district court judge found that the federal government did violate the law in some aspects of its analysis, but denied some of the tribes' other claims.

A lawsuit brought by Bethel’s tribal government challenging a state water quality certification for the Donlin Gold mine project is set to have oral arguments in Anchorage Superior Court on Friday, Aug. 30.

Six tribes from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta continue to fight against federal environmental reviews and permitting for the proposed Donlin Gold mine project. The case is set to be argued in federal court in Anchorage on Monday, June 24.

The Kuskokwim Consortium Library is applying for a Jesuit Volunteer to help Bethel's homeless population seeking shelter from the winter cold.Homeless…