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The Rural Resiliency Workshop later this month is a partnership between the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and regional tribal consortium the Association of Village Council Presidents.
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Bethel's City Council ultimately appointed insurance agent John Lloyd to sit on the council to fill a vacant seat, but was divided on which of two candidates to appoint. After three rounds of tied votes, that resulted in a straw drawing.
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Feb. 11 marked the closing of the 2025 Kuskokwim 300 race weekend with the annual Mushers Banquet.
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High school boys in Akiachak can “forget the muscle cars,” said Barron Sample, principal of the village’s school. “You get the muscle dogs,” he said. Welcome to the mushing-crazed Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta — the one region of Alaska where the sport of mushing seems to be thriving, not just surviving.
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The Danish musher, who splits his time between Alta, Norway and Takotna, Alaska, clinched the award given to the last musher into Bethel, still a staple of the race after 46 years.
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Seventeen mushers embarked upriver in the 46th running of the Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race this weekend, visiting the communities of Tuluksak, Kalskag, and Aniak before heading back to the finish line in Bethel.
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Bethel’s Pete Kaiser was the first musher to return, crossing the finish line at 1:57 a.m. and officially tying Jeff King for the all-time record of most first-place finishes in the race.
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Bethel’s Pete Kaiser has won his 9th Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race. His second-half strategy stood up to a formidable challenge from some newer teams.
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16 mushers and their teams took off in a mass start and raced up the frozen Kuskokwim River and back in the 2025 Akiak Dash. Kwethluk's Raymond Alexie won the race, claiming his second Dash victory after having finished first in 2023.
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Sixteen mushers and their teams took off in a mass start and raced up the frozen Kuskokwim River and back in the 2025 Akiak Dash. Kwethluk's Raymond Alexie won the race, claiming his second Akiak Dash victory.
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Raymond Alexie cinched his second career win in the Akiak Dash in commanding fashion, staying miles ahead of his competitors throughout the 2025 running of the race.
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At noon on Feb. 8, the 2025 Akiak Dash started swiftly as 16 mushers sped off onto the frozen Kuskokwim River.
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The U.S. Coast Guard removed a crewmember from a Norwegian cargo vessel roughly 240 nautical miles southwest of Unalaska Wednesday.A rescue coordination center in Norway contacted the Coast Guard around 7 p.m. Tuesday, requesting a medical evacuation of a sick crewmember on board the Fermita.
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Earlier this month, commercial snow crabs started hitting Unalaska’s docks again, for the first time in nearly three years. The Bering Sea snow crab fishery reopened in mid-October, after billions of the crab disappeared and the fishery was shut down in October 2022. This season’s first catch was delivered on Jan. 15. Opilio, or snow crab, is generally fished in the new year and into the early spring. The season runs through the end of May.
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Unalaska's U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit is investigating a fishing vessel that ran aground near Iliuliuk Bay. The F/V Northern Endurance was partially beached about three miles from downtown Unalaska, near Little Priest Rock on Thursday and was pulled free by the emergency response and salvage company Resolve Marine Friday morning around 9 a.m., according to Commanding Officer Lt. Lawrence Schalles.
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Unangam Tunuu is taught in only a handful of classes in the public school system, and outside these sessions, the language is seldom spoken in everyday conversation. The struggle on St. Paul mirrors trends across Alaska. A 2024 report from the Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council, a legislative council that advises the governor's office, found that all of the state’s Indigenous languages are critically endangered, with some spoken by fewer than a dozen people.
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