It was a cacophony of noise at the start line of the Holiday Classic Sled Dog Race in Bethel, Alaska, and the 1997 Brighton High School graduate and dog musher was ready.

At the “Walmart of Bethel” there is something for everyone. But instead of adding to the junk pile, discarded things find new life every Saturday at the landfill.

Such debates are simmering across the state’s vast tundra, broad rivers, sprawling wetlands and towering mountain ranges. Put a pin just about anywhere on the map of Alaska, and you’re likely to hit ...

The city of Bethel s new pool and fitness center is set to open in early November after decades of bake sales -- and a $23 million state appropriation in 2012. The last barge of the year will ...

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet in Alaska on Friday for talks on ending the war in Ukraine, and to revive their ...

Baldwin showed off his truck at Bethel's first-ever car show, held over the weekend. The Southwest Alaska community is off the U.S. road system, and cars must be shipped in on barges, for a higher ...

The theater was Bethel's main attraction in the 1970s and 1980s, but has been little more than a roadside landmark ever since. Hoffman suspects Bethel children may be envious their parents and ...

BETHEL, Alaska—In March of this year, state troopers stopped a 59-year-old man who was headed for the tiny village of Chevak. His suitcase was leaking alcohol, so an airline employee called over ...

Their nomadic way of life changed when the United States began to enforce the requirement that Yup’ik children attend school in Western Alaska, sometime after World War II. Along with churches ...

EVAN ERICKSON, BYLINE: Volunteer captains of small fishing boats in Bethel, Alaska, welcome the visitors to ferry them 15 miles up the Kuskokwim River to Kwethluk, which is not reachable by roads.