The Bethel Warriors boys and girls basketball squads have reached the end of the line for the 2025 season following a valiant effort over the weekend at the 3A Western Conference Championships in Nome.

Bethel’s local sprint mushing club has hosted four races over the past week, and two familiar names came out on top.

Between resignations, firings, and paperwork errors, at least 23 of the roughly 200 people in the National Weather Service's Alaska offices are no longer with the agency, a union source said.

The Alaska Moravian Church has begun the process of removing the remnants of the historic orphanage and boarding school near Kwethluk. This week, a small group of church members set fire to the main structures on the site, a move they say was overdue.

For the past few years, Bethel Family Clinic has been struggling to meet local health needs due to limited resources and outdated infrastructure. That may change thanks to a few sources of grant funding.

In Bethel, the 2024-2025 season has been the sixth mildest winter in 101 years of climate records, according to data from the National Weather Service.

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.

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.