City officials in the middle Kuskokwim River community say they’ve decided to suspend library services due to staff turnover, low patronage, and the tumultuousness of federal grants.

Bethel City Manager Lori Strickler said the properties had not been paying for water services, although some may have been using water for multiple years. She said property owners or renters can create an account with the city to have services resumed.

The governor's counterproposal, announced along with his veto Thursday, would tie a smaller funding increase to policy changes.

If the state Department of Fish and Game predator control takes place, it would be the third year of a program that has so far killed 180 bears and 19 wolves.

The K300 Fun Run and K300 Junior Championship race began on Charles Family Lake in Bethel on April 16.

Driver's licenses and IDs that are not Real ID-compliant will no longer get you through U.S. airport security once the law takes effect in a few weeks, but full enforcement may not start right away.

Supporters of the bill, which passed by one vote in each chamber, say poor school funding threatens Alaska's future. Opponents say Friday's vote was a political maneuver.

A group of Anchorage jurors was unable to come to a unanimous decision in a nearly six-year long homicide case. Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews declared a mistrial Friday morning for a young man involved in a 2019 Unalaska car crash case. Following more than three days of deliberation and over a week in trial, 24-year-old Dustin Ruckman was not convicted for his involvement in the deaths of two Unalaska teen girls, but he also hasn’t been acquitted.

The fate of a young man behind the wheel in a fatal 2019 Unalaska car crash is now in the hands of an Anchorage jury. Dustin Ruckman, 24, faces two counts of criminally negligent homicide in the deaths of two Unalaska teen girls.

A 28-year-old fisherman was reported missing Friday in Unalaska. The City of Unalaska said in a press release that Jacob Riley Veeser was last seen at midnight on April 4 walking down the GI “dolphin” dock at the UniSea Inc. processing plant.