With warmer weather looming later this week, race managers have rescheduled the 50-mile Holiday Classic sled dog race for Jan. 16.

In November, the partial remains of four Yup’ik inhabitants of the Bethel area were finally laid to rest by the Orutsararmiut Traditional Native Council (ONC). The remains had been stored at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for more than a century.

The Kuskokwim Consortium Library in Bethel has been recommended for federal funding that would allow it to expand how it helps community members with technological needs.

The Bethel boys trounced the Delta Huskies to take first place in the tournament, while the Warrior girls won handily over the Craig Lady Panthers to also emerge as champions.

Amid the ongoing flooding, Kwigillingok’s tribe received a rare federal disaster declaration from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for damage wrought by another flood event in August 2024.

The Holiday Classic is postponed again. While the trail upriver looked fine on Jan. 10, by the morning of Jan. 11, race officials decided that conditions were unfavorable enough to postpone the race to a later date.

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.

Unalaska High School junior Cache Henning came within one point of winning the Alaska state wrestling title for the 130-pound weight class last weekend. Henning faced Mt. Edgecumbe wrestler Elden Andrew in the championship match at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage. Despite the narrow loss, Unalaska Head Coach Rainier Marquez said Henning’s second-place finish is a major accomplishment.

In the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, where evergreen trees can be sparse, the region has its own ways of ringing in the holiday season.

In 2021, students in the sixth-grade class designed ornaments to represent the state of Alaska. This year, they are on display again.