Western

Mekoryuk is the first community in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta — and likely the first in Alaska — to possibly reach total vaccination for everyone aged 16 and older. 

The size of king salmon returning to Western Alaska rivers to spawn has been decreasing over the past few decades.

The Alaska Air National Guard rescued the pilot of a crashed Cessna airplane near Lime Village on April 7.

Viola Waghiyi of Savoonga is one of the 26 members chosen for a new White House advisory council on environmental justice.

For over a year, residents in Mertarvik have survived without a commercial airport. That has meant spotty access to groceries and dangerous delays accessing medical care.

YKHC hopes to vaccinate every child aged 12 to 15 in the region once Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is approved for that age group.

State and federal fishery managers are waiting on more information to determine which government entity will have the authority to manage king salmon on the lower Kuskokwim River this summer.

St. Paul has implemented a two-week hunker-down order after officials confirmed the island’s first case of COVID-19 Wednesday.

Unin’s advice to other women who may want a combat job is to do lots of physical training.

Prosecuting crimes in Western Alaska can be tough, with just a few lawyers assigned to thousands of cases annually.