Bethel’s local election results are set after the canvass board met on Oct. 3. Newcomer WG Anaruk will hold a one-year seat on Bethel City Council, beating Danny Suiter by 15 votes. The race for the one-year seat on the council was too close to call after the polls closed on Oct. 1.

In September, Bethel residents had the rare chance to attend in-person events with opponents of the proposed mine, and with the tribal landholders and mining leaders pushing it forward.

The Bethel Regional High School boys and girls cross country teams will compete in the Alaska Student Activities Association Division II State Competition at Bartlett High School in Anchorage on Oct. 5. There, the boys team has a chance to make school history.

The National Weather Service has issued a high surf advisory for the northern Kuskokwim Delta coast and a special weather statement for the Yukon Delta coast.

Four people who died when a plane they were flying in crashed near St. Mary’s last month faced weather conditions that caused another plane to turn back shortly before the accident, according to a preliminary report released Oct. 3 by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

Alaska State Troopers say that they're investigating the deaths of two 18-year-old women as homicides after their bodies were discovered in a Hooper Bay residence on Oct. 2.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Friday afternoon that Bering Sea fishermen will be allowed to harvest a total of about 4.7 million pounds of opilio, also known as snow crab, for the first time in two years. According to Fish and Game, estimates of total mature male biomass are above the threshold required to open the fishery.

The U.S. Coast Guard spotted four foreign military vessels in the Bering Sea Saturday. Coast Guard officials say the joint patrol between Russian and Chinese ships shows their “increased interest in the Arctic.”

Bishop Nestor of Alaska and the Aleutians commissioned the two-story Victorian home in 1882. On an ill-fated Alaska voyage, however, before he was ever able to sleep in the house, Nestor fell overboard and drowned. No bishop has ever stayed in the house...until now.

The Cessna 207 was operated by Yute Commuter Service and was believed to be carrying employees of the company rather than charter or scheduled passengers, according to Clint Johnson, Alaska chief of the National Transportation Safety Board.