Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests from public schools that primarily serve Indigenous children.

This week, KYUK will release the first part of an investigation with ProPublica that looks at infrastructure issues in rural Alaska schools.

For the Lower Kuskokwim River communities keeping mushing strong in the region, the Doubles Race is a family affair.

In Juneau and Washington D.C., legislators try to keep federal chaos at bay, one phone call and story at a time.

High school students in Bethel say Alaska Native heritage is integral to their accelerated science and engineering education, and are protesting the University of Alaska's recent decision to rename ANSEP.

For 56 communities across the region reliant on federal funds to support critical infrastructure and essential services, cuts at any level could have severe consequences.

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.

The road would give King Cove residents access to potentially life-saving medical care, but it could threaten key subsistence species and create a dangerous precedent.

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.

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.