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The Kuskokwim River provides local Yup’ik, Cup’ik, and Athabascan residents with one of the largest traditional fisheries in the world, with 50% of the annual diet in these communities made up ...
The name “Nazi Creek” will no longer be used for federal databases or maps. On Thursday, the Domestic Names Committee for the ...
The Kuskokwim River provides the lifeblood for Napakiak’s 370 residents. Now, erosion — accelerated by climate change — threatens their existence.
BETHEL — Almost no one is catching fish on the Kuskokwim River so far this summer. Government managers have shut down much of the river to gillnets — the most effective gear. It could be the ...
Jan. 5—A snowmachine carrying two juveniles on the Kuskokwim River drove into an open hole Saturday, resulting in the death of a 15-year-old, Alaska State Troopers said Sunday. Troopers said in ...
BETHEL — The whale hunted and killed on the Kuskokwim River Thursday was identified by federal authorities as a large gray whale. A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration biologist in ...
May 11—Communities along the Lower Kuskokwim River flooded this week as a spring breakup ice jam backed up water to the highest levels reported in nearly 20 years, authorities said. By Friday ...
Ice fills the Kuskokwim River in southwest Alaska on April 30, 2020. Courtesy Alaska State Troopers Floodwaters surround a home on the banks of the Kuskokwim River on April 30, 2020.
A few weeks ago, Mark Leary and his crew began to plow the snow off the frozen Kuskokwim River in southwest Alaska. Every year, once the river freezes and the snow is cleared from the ice, dozens ...
BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — The tribal commission formed to co-manage the Lower Kuskokwim's fish has laid out an approach to protect the river's salmon, voting down a resolution to allow larger nets ...
The Kuskokwim River provides local Yup’ik, Cup’ik, and Athabascan residents with one of the largest traditional fisheries in the world, with 50% of the annual diet in these communities made up of ...