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The Kuskokwim River community of Akiak has been largely without power for more than two weeks. The outage appears to be part of a broader issue with the town’s generators and has resulted in significant food loss and financial hardship for residents.
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In a final environmental impact statement (EIS) released on June 28, the Bureau of Land Management recommended the Interior Secretary take “no action” regarding the protected lands.
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A malfunction of a fire-suppression system at the Alaska Army National Guard hangar in Bethel released a small amount of firefighting foam containing cancer-linked PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” on June 25, according to the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
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High winds caused a small fire at the landfill in Quinhagak to quickly spread to the nearby tundra earlier this week, threatening the community and coming within feet of an active archaeological dig.
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A measure seeking to eliminate ranked choice voting and the state’s open primary is on the November ballot.
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Managers say they hope the openers allow federally qualified subsistence users to harvest abundant sockeye salmon.
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Bethel City Council has appointed City Clerk Lori Strickler as acting city manager. While Strickler serves as manager, Deputy Bethel City Clerk Kevin Morgan will serve as acting city clerk.
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The chum fishing opportunities overlap with two-week complete gillnet closures along the river intended to protect chinook salmon.
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Bethel’s regional hospital and other Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation facilities were under lockdown for around an hour on June 24 after an unidentified man showed what appeared to be a firearm and made a verbal threat at a hospital facility.
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The aid money is for disasters declared for the 2022 chum salmon failure on the Kuskokwim River and the 2021-2022 sockeye salmon failure that affected Upper Cook Inlet setnet fishers.
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Six tribes from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta continue to fight against federal environmental reviews and permitting for the proposed Donlin Gold mine project. The case is set to be argued in federal court in Anchorage on Monday, June 24.
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Salmon fishing with gillnets will open on the lower river for 12 hours on June 22, while gillnet fishing between the Kalskag Line and Aniak Box will open 24/7 starting the same day.
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A boat captain died on Unalaska’s Bunker Hill trail Wednesday afternoon. Unalaska’s Department of Public Safety received information of a person possibly deceased, and the city’s fire and police departments were dispatched to the popular hiking spot on Amaknak Island around 4 p.m., according to an announcement from the City of Unalaska.
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Fishermen-owned Silver Bay already operates a facility in False Pass, just next to the Trident plant. Silver Bay President and CEO Cora Campbell said owning adjacent facilities would make operations more efficient, and allow them to provide more opportunities to the fleet.
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game was unable to get funding to count fish and collect data this summer at Unalaska’s McLees Lake, where the community harvests a large majority of its subsistence sockeye salmon.
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The Ounalashka Corp. has been awarded $2 million for cleaning up Unalaska’s Strawberry Hill Landfill.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced in late May that it had selected the Native village corporation as part of President Joe Biden’s “Investing in America” agenda.
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