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the past few years, Bethel Family Clinic has been struggling to meet local health needs due to limited resources and outdated infrastructure.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.

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

A new state championship banner will be hung in the Unalaska High School gym, and it will be the first time a girls sports team is featured on the gym wall as a state champion. The Unalaska Raiders girls volleyball team defeated the Susitna Valley Rams three matches to zero on Saturday, claiming their victory as the 2A Alaska State champions. They returned to Unalaska Monday, parading across the island in a procession of fire trucks, an ambulance and a local police squad car, showing off their trophy.

For decades, King Cove’s roughly 800 residents have called for a road they say could save lives in emergencies. Neither city has a hospital, so residents rely on medical evacuations to reach Anchorage for urgent medical care. The Biden administration last week endorsed the proposal, recommending a land exchange with King Cove’s Native corporation so the road can be built. But that road would go through a federally protected wilderness area. While residents argue it’s a matter of life and death, environmental advocates say the road could threaten vital wildlife habitat — and set a dangerous precedent.

The Associated Press announced Wednesday that Trump, a Republican, has taken Alaska and its three electoral votes. The majority of Unalaskans voted in his favor. He received about 55% of the vote Tuesday. Some questioned ballots still need to be accounted for, but not enough to turn the island’s presidential choice blue.