The village’s $19 million airport is less than a year old, but shifting permafrost had already buckled and potholed its runway; a third of it was starting to sink.
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Tribal advocacy group calls for reinstating Northern Bering Sea climate resilience area
The national tribal advocacy group passed a resolution urging the federal government to restore the Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area as originally issued and to incorporate traditional knowledge “into all federal decision-making that would affect the northern Bering Sea region.”
Searchers recover pilot Kyle Stevens’ remains in Yukon River near Russian Mission
The remains of Kyle Stevens, 31, have been found. Missing after taking off from Russian Mission last week, Stevens’ body was recovered Friday in the Yukon River near the village. The crashed plane was found days earlier.
Elders And Youth Conference takes a look at healing with film ‘We Breathe Again’
Native communities across Alaska are seeking a key to understanding the epidemic of suicide. The film screened Tuesday last week during the First Alaskans Institute 2017 Elders and Youth Conference held prior to the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention in Anchorage last week.
Affidavit: Mountain Village man allegedly assaulted, killed girlfriend
According an affidavit filed by Alaska State Trooper Sgt. Kevin Yancey, the trouble started when Walters, 34, and his girlfriend, Gertrude Queenie, were drinking at a friend’s house Oct. 4. Walters claimed that he caught Queenie sleeping with his friend and became “enraged.”
After thousands of domestic violence cases, YK Delta says goodbye to assistant district attorney
Over the past four years Assistant District Attorney Bailey Woolfstead has worked on thousands of cases. Like other Assistant District Attorneys in Bethel she wrangled 150 to 200 of them at any given time, but over 95 percent of her cases involved domestic violence.