The Bethel boys varsity basketball squad emerged champions in the Donlin Gold tournament at the Warrior Dome over the weekend, while the Warriors girls also fought hard to take second place.

Mountain Village School on the lower Yukon River hosted their first ever self-made book fair earlier this month — and the first in years since Scholastic changed their shipping policies, affecting schools off the road system.

The apparent cable break is in a similar location to an outage in 2023 that left customers without internet for 14 weeks.

Despite a rough start to the 2025 mushing season and the postponement of every K300-sponsored race thus far, Jan. 16 proved to be a great day to run dogs on the Kuskokwim River for the Holiday Classic sled dog race.

Made one week out from the original start date of Jan. 24, the postponement is a major decision that’s been met with support from mushers, volunteers, and fans alike.

The 2025 Kuskokwim 300 has been pushed back two weeks because of poor snowfall and looming above-freezing temperatures, according to a release from the Kuskokwim 300 Race Committee.

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.