Technicians and engineers install antennae receivers on Lena Foss’ home in Akiak, Alaska. Internet speeds will double in the town later this month, when it gains access to broadband internet.

Alaska Tribal Broadband CEO Craig Fleener said that those communities will build their infrastructure out next year. Fleener said that Akiak is the first and only tribe he knows about that plans ...

Lena Foss thought she got lucky when she salvaged a dryer from the dump in Akiak, a Yup'ik village in Western Alaska. She knew it was broken, but figured she could fix it by looking at tutorials ...

The lower Kuskokwim River community of Akiak is seen in 2023. (From Alaska DOTPF) Akiak has three diesel generators that are supposed to power the town, but they’ve been plagued by mechanical ...

The Alaska Native population here is 62 percent. Alaska Natives comprise 94 percent of the population in Akiak, 68 percent in Aniak, 94 percent in Tuluksak, and 85 percent in Upper Kalskag ...

Akiak is a city in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, with a population of 416. The total cost of housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, taxes, and other necessities for a single adult ...

Seventy miles inland from the Bering Sea, on roadless lands beside the Kuskokwim River, three Yup'ik villages are perfect examples of the educational challenges faced in Alaska. Teacher turnover ...

Akiak, Alaska. Serves 200 people. In some states a small percentage of tests were performed before water was treated, and some contaminants were subsequently removed or diluted. As a result ...

Alaska administered the Alaska System of Academic Readiness and the Alaska Science Assessment to high school students. These figures display how well the school as a whole performed in reading ...

taking his father’s dogs on three- and four-mile trails near his home in Akiak. He ran the Iditarod for the first time in 2010 and has competed seven times since. The Iditarod is Alaska’s best ...