After making do with makeshift classrooms as the Kuskowkim River encroached on their old school, Napakiak students are back to school under one new roof.

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.

A newly updated learning space aims to grow the potential of a Bethel-based nursing education program.

For the first time in years, students in Napakiak are at school under the same roof, in a school building that’s safe from the encroaching erosion of the Kuskokwim River.

As public media is threatened after cuts from the Trump administration, Indigenous radio also faces threats to how it preserves and grows language.

The vote was the second successful veto override after lawmakers convened Saturday for a special session called by Dunleavy.

Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than a third of that.

On Monday, July 28, the governor called for legislators to address what he called “Alaska’s chronic education outcome crisis,” and to reconsider his executive order they had previously voted down, creating a new Alaska Department of Agriculture that he said would strengthen food security in Alaska.

Yuut Elitnaurviat, the vocational center serving the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, is under new leadership after Executive Director Mike Hoffman recently retired. Yuut Elitnaiurviat says it could not be in better hands with his replacement – a household name across the region and the state.

Despite unfinished business in the Alaska Legislature, school districts across the state have reached the deadline to submit the operating budgets that will carry them into 2026. Most of the sprawling districts that serve the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta say they have already planned for the worst.