Newly built houses stand on a bluff above the Ninglick River in Mertarvik, Alaska—Newtok’s new village site—after a busy 2019 construction season. (Madeline Ostrander) By signing up ...

NEWTOK, Alaska -- The last time chronic flooding forced this tiny Alaska village to relocate, sled dogs pulled the old church to its new home three miles away, far from the raging Ninglick River.