Health

This week the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation is offering to test Bethel water tanks for bacteria at no cost.

Search and Rescue volunteers have found both travelers who were overdue on a 90 mile snowmachining trip from Kasigluk to Toksook Bay. The two men had been missing since Sunday night.  

Update April 5th, 5:52 pm: The second missing traveler has been found alive and is currently being checked out by health officials. 

Update April 5th, 11 am: One of the missing persons has been found in good health. Rescuers are still searching for the other missing traveler.   

Search and Rescue groups are looking for two travelers missing since Sunday who were last seen snowmachining from Kasigluk to Toksook Bay.

A search was launched Tuesday afternoon for a seal hunter missing out of Newtok. Tom John, age 59, had a red and yellow kayak that was not found with his vehicle at the ice edge by searchers. He left Newtok on Monday for his hunt. The ground and air search for Tom John involves State Troopers, the Civil Air Patrol, volunteers, the Coast Guard, and the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center.

The Red Cross is bringing free smoke alarms right to your door.

It's their Regional Home Fire Campaign and it is coming to Bethel this weekend.

Lisa Miller, the Regional Communications officer with Alaska's Red Cross, says that they will be knocking on the doors at the Bethel mobile home park on Saturday.

"Just be home if they're in the mobile home park. Just be home and, you know, open the door when you hear somebody knocking."

Miller says the goal is to reduce home fire deaths and injuries by 25 percent.