Whether you’re a Fat Bear Week fan for life or a newcomer to the scene, Christy NaMee Eriksen hopes you’ll find a bear to put your weight behind.
Southwest
Get ready for Fat Bear Week
The warm-up competition, called Fat Bear Junior, is going on right now.
Swiss paddlers arrive in Bethel after 700 mile journey down the Kuskokwim
A father and son from Switzerland paddled ashore at Lomack Beach in Bethel last week. They had kayaked around 700 miles down the Kuskokwim to get there from Lake Minchumina.
Lower Kuskokwim students return to classrooms that served as weekend storm shelters
Although no school interiors flooded, there was significant erosion in some communities that brought the buildings much closer to the shoreline.
Dillingham’s housing crisis has teachers sleeping in the school
The housing shortage in Dillingham is intertwined with a national shortage of teachers.
To center Yup’ik culture, a Southwest Alaska school district has adopted a subsistence calendar
“We don’t want our future generations to forget who we are,” one school board member said. “We want to educate them about our ancestors and how they survived in this harsh environment.”