The goal is to keep the business operating and workers employed, so Kwik’Pak Fisheries in Emmonak is diversifying its business by building greenhouses right next to its fish processing plant.
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Soaring lumber prices worsen housing shortage in Y-K Delta
Lumber prices have been soaring across the country as demand for wood during the pandemic outstripped supply.
Bethel elder Eula David, co-author of English-Yup’ik medical dictionary, dies
She had a long and robust career as a community health aide in Mekoryuk and later as a medical translator in Bethel.
In Bethel, a B&B dispute points to larger housing problems
Some in Bethel say the city could start losing essential services if it starts shutting down B&B’s, which house many transient workers.
State upholds controversial permit for Donlin gold mine
The decision comes after an administrative law judge recommended that the DEC should not uphold the certificate in April.
Southwest Alaska village develops ‘first of its kind’ 50-year plan for community threatened by erosion, climate change
Over the next 50 years, addressing Napakiak’s environmental threats is estimated to cost over $200 million.