There are cars and small trucks traveling on the frozen Kuskokwim River around Bethel, but don’t call it an ice road yet.
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Alaska’s early cold snap isn’t going away any time soon
The cold has set in across most of Alaska and set daily record lows in places like Homer, King Salmon and Bethel.
Association of Village Council Presidents enacts vaccine mandate for employees
Under the policy, all employees must be fully vaccinated against the virus by Jan. 4, 2022.
A shortage of troopers in Western Alaska comes with serious consequences, study says
A study published in 2020 found trooper posts around Kotzebue, Nome, Bethel, Dillingham and Kodiak were, together, understaffed by about 22%.
Bethel will host Alaska’s only licensed practical nursing certificate program
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for health care workers in rural areas. A quick search on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation website shows 25 job openings for LPNs in Bethel alone.
Tribal and commercial fishing groups call for drastic reductions to trawl salmon bycatch
Bycatch rates are relatively low, but because trawlers catch so much of their target species, the unintended harvest adds up.
Alaska medevac planes are flying recovering COVID patients from urban hospitals to smaller ones
To make room at the busy Anchorage hospitals, still-hospitalized patients are getting medevaced to rural hospitals.
Alaska Native graduate program aims to elevate Indigenous knowledge in fisheries research
A program focused on bridging the gap between Indigenous knowledge and Western science is entering its second year at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Searchers look for unknown plane that sent distress signal near St. Mary’s
A Civil Air Patrol team from Bethel searched from Aug. 29–Sept. 1 but did not find any signs of a plane crash.
In Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, rapid testing helped slow fall COVID surge
Widespread use of serial rapid testing changed the course of the pandemic in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.