On top of the fuel shortage, a blizzard last weekend broke water lines and drained the island’s water tanks.
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Fishing council ties bycatch limits on Bering Sea trawlers to halibut abundance
The action caps — at least for now — a six-year debate about curbing halibut bycatch in Alaska.
St. Paul gets new police chief after its entire department quit over COVID vaccine mandate
The island community of 355 people has recorded just seven cases of the virus to date.
Alaskans we’ve lost to COVID: John Redmond Evans Sr., hardworking dad
Born in Galena in 1943, Evans got an electrician’s degree in Kansas. That’s where he met his wife, Sophie, whom he married in 1965 and started a family with in Kotzebue.
Akiak’s broadband rollout marred by outages
The satellite internet provider says that they’re still in beta testing.
‘River is getting close.’ Erosion is threatening Napakiak’s school
The village is losing ground three times faster than it was 10 years ago, according to studies of Napakiak’s erosion.