The entire community was without electricity for more than three days.
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Chevak hardware store and corporation headquarters destroyed by fire
As of the afternoon of Jan. 29, the electricity was out to one section of the community, and residents who live in about a dozen homes were evacuated to the local school.
Sweeping FEMA changes aim to eliminate red tape, financial burdens for disaster survivors
Over the last two years, thousands of Alaskans have applied for individual disaster assistance.
Tribal groups applaud Alaska Native appointments to federal fisheries advisory panel
Amid alarmingly low salmon returns in Western Alaska, calls have grown for tribes to have a greater say in the way fisheries are managed.
As the permafrost melts, the houses in Nunapitchuk are breaking down
Some houses in Nunapitchuk sit on their own little hills as the soil erodes around them. Whole neighborhoods have sunk as seeping sewage mixes with the melting tundra.
Reopened case into the death of Bethel woman leaves ‘more questions than answers’
The investigator who reviewed the case eventually found more than a dozen “points of contention” — essentially red flags in the initial investigation.
Operation Santa Claus delivers Christmas gifts to Tuluksak
The Alaska National Guard’s annual community outreach program, Operation Santa Claus, is in its 68th year.
St. Olga of Kwethluk to become first-ever Yup’ik saint
The late Orthodox missionary and scholar Fr. Michael Oleksa played a key role in compiling the accounts of holiness essential to the official process of Olga’s glorification.
Federal fisheries managers hold Bering Sea pollock quota steady
The pollock trawl fishery has faced increasing criticism for its perceived role in Alaska’s salmon crash.
Quinhagak’s tribe issues disaster declaration as power outages continue into 5th day
The declaration stresses that the water and sewer systems are at immediate risk of freeze up and catastrophic failure.