This year, the Cama'i Dance Festival honored the late Cakicenaq Stanley Waska for his contributions to preserving dance and potlatch traditions, immortalized in the award-winning film "Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter."

Fifty-seven-year-old Leonard Olrun has been convicted of sexually abusing three children aged 13 to 14 in Mekoryuk in 2020 and 2021.

An ordinance to amend the city’s alcohol code was introduced by Bethel Mayor Rose “Sugar” Henderson. She said the move is based on concerns that Fili’s Pizza was flouting the rules with a series of parties the restaurant hosted beginning in February.

After three packed days, the 2025 Cama’i Dance Festival is a wrap. On Sunday, March 30, the final beats of the festival rang out through the Bethel Regional High School gymnasium from the cauyat frame drums of the final performers — the Bethel-based dance group Qasqirmiut.

The second day of the Cama’i dance festival buzzed with another full roster of dancing, workshops, and the annual Native foods dinner.

The 2025 Cama’i dance festival began this Friday, March 28, in Bethel Regional High School's gym-turned-performance venue. Over the course of the evening, hundreds of dancers and spectators filled the room in a booming first night of attendance.

Facing potential endangered species status for Gulf of Alaska king salmon, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is rolling out fishing restrictions across western Alaska.

The trial began Wednesday in Anchorage for a young man facing felony charges in a fatal Unalaska car crash case.Dustin Ruckman is charged with two counts of criminally negligent homicide for his involvement in the 2019 crash on Mount Ballyhoo. He was 18 at the time of the incident and was driving the truck that eventually plummeted about 900 feet down the side of the cliff. Ruckman sustained minor injuries, according to police, but two teenage girls were thrown from the truck and died in the fall: Kiara Rentaria Haist, 18, and Karly McDonald, 16.

After three long days of jury selection in Unalaska, court officials will return to Anchorage to restart their search and begin the trial for a young man involved in a fatal 2019 car crash. Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews told the court Friday afternoon that after questioning around 100 people this week, they could not find enough local impartial jurors.

Officials with the U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) told state and federal officials last month that they would be interested in expanding military access on Adak Island. The announcement was made during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Feb. 13, after Sen. Dan Sullivan pressed federal officials to strengthen military presence in Alaska.