The bill creates a broadband office, sets up an advisory board and a broadband “parity fund” to equalize costs.
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Former Y-K Delta lawmaker Mary Peltola is running for Alaska’s US House seat
Peltola served in the state House from 1999 until 2009. For the last five years, she’s led the Kuskokwim River Inter Tribal Fish Commission.
An epic forecast for Bristol Bay salmon has industry leaders worried it will be too much to handle
Biologists are forecasting another massive run of sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay this summer, raising questions in commercial fishing circles about whether the industry will be able to keep up.
Supporters back Yup’ik name for Dillingham creek
Everyone who spoke at the Curyung Tribe’s talking circle supported changing the name of a stream that runs through Dillingham. The current name of the creek includes a slur against Indigenous women.
Chefornak dancers honor loved ones at this year’s Cama-i Dance Festival
The group is dancing this year without one of its main elders, who died recently of COVID-19.
How Yup’ik dance returned to Napaskiak after a 70-year absence
Some groups are just beginning to dance together again after two years of the pandemic, but the village of Napaskiak remembers a longer period without the drums.