Evan Erickson
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The groups hailed the naming of three Alaska Native members to the panel tasked with advising the top regional federal fisheries council. -
Alaska's new alcohol laws require cargo carriers to be registered to transport alcohol. Only a few have completed the process as the new year begins. -
The protected “D-1 lands” were set aside after the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. They have been off-limits to development ever since. -
Vitus Energy says it's sending fuel additives to Kuskokwim River residents whose heating fuel gelled at low temperatures late last month. -
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will keep the total allowable catch for pollock at its current level of 1.3 million metric tons. -
Ice on the river is only eight to nine inches thick, according to Bethel Search and Rescue. Travelers riding vehicles should not stop on the river. -
Olga will also become the first female Orthodox saint in North America, in a glorification strongly backed by the late Archpriest Michael Oleksa. -
Oleksa, who came to Kwethluk in 1972, served as a priest in more than a dozen Alaska Native villages across the state over his five decades in Alaska. -
Bethel Search and Rescue's annual Nov. 18 survey found open water along the Kuskokwim, which is freezing faster near Bethel this year but still unsafe. -
Sen. Lisa Murkowski will lead the hearing, set for 1 p.m. Friday at Bethel's Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp. offices.
