Red Devil can’t get funding together to pump its tanks or to dig a lagoon because it doesn’t have any entities to act as recipients on the community’s behalf. It had a tribal council running intermittently since the 1970s, but the council stopped operating more than a decade ago.
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Bethel couple’s pandemic dog sled wedding comes 12 years after meeting in Ohio Waffle House
With the pandemic still going and the courthouse closed, wedding planning took a different spin.
Y-K Delta ahead of schedule on COVID-19 vaccination
While many areas of the nation have fallen behind schedule in their COVID-19 vaccinations, the opposite is happening in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Digital divide interrupts education on the Lower Kuskokwim
COVID-19 lockdowns have left students and their families navigating new technology on their own.
Looking for a ‘lost one’: Tuluksak search becomes training ground for young volunteers
For some of the young Tuluksak volunteers, this is their first time looking for a missing body.
Rise in Y-K Delta’s severe COVID-19 cases linked to Christmas gatherings
The overall number of new, confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is declining. But the number of severe infections — ones that require hospitalization and medevacs — is going up.