The 2025 Kuskokwim 300 has been pushed back two weeks because of poor snowfall and looming above-freezing temperatures, according to the K300 Race Committee.
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Tidal action and fierce winds flood low-lying areas of Kwigillingok
Wind gusts as high as 55 miles per hour pushed waters well above the normal high tide line.
UAF salmon productivity study looks to local experts as guides
Not all fisheries research begins at a dinner table — but this study did.
A recent study from the University of Alaska Fairbanks found a correlation between chinook salmon size and their population numbers in a changing climate, but that correlation has been clear to the people fishing Western Alaska waters for years.
In Kwethluk, the relics of the first-ever Yup’ik saint are unearthed
Russian Orthodox believers and clergy visited Kwethluk to exhume Olinka “Arrsamquq” Michael’s body for her canonization.
Former Pilot Station mayor pleads guilty to felony election interference
Arthur Heckman Sr. admitted Thursday to concealing municipal ballots and directing officials to not hold an election.
Bethel’s absentee in-person polling location ran out of official ballots hours before closing
The recording of votes on sample ballots prompted concern on a community Facebook page. But the state said it was perfectly legal.
Feds to monitor compliance with voting rights laws in rural Alaska
Monitoring will focus on the Bethel, Dillingham and Kusilvak Census Areas, as well as the North Slope and Northwest Arctic Boroughs.
Alaska Corrections contractor denies ACLU claim of ‘massive’ prisoner health data breach
The ACLU said that electronic records displayed diagnoses, prescriptions, and treatments of “at least 74” incarcerated Alaskans. That included people incarcerated at Lemon Creek Correctional Center in Juneau.
Satellite internet shakes up rural Alaska schools amid rising costs
Education is increasingly reliant on the internet. In rural Alaska, who provides internet service to schools is a million-dollar question.
Judge finds feds failed to consider full impact of Donlin Gold in environmental analysis
Judge Sharon Gleason found that regulators did violate the law in some aspects of their analysis, but denied some plaintiffs’ claims.