With their funding still in dispute, school districts must submit operating budgets for the next school year. Many on the Y-K ...

Despite unfinished business in the Alaska Legislature, school districts across the state have reached the deadline to submit ...

At the Lower Kuskokwim Dance Festival in Tununak, students are given opportunities to learn about mental health programs alongside a range of cultural activities such as Yup'ik singing and dancing.

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 ...

Kwethluk, which has about 790 residents, is 12 miles (19 kilometers) east of Bethel and is the second-largest community along the Lower Kuskokwim River.

Alaska’s Lower Kuskokwim School District is roughly the same size as West Virginia. In her three years leading the school system, Superintendent Kimberly Hankins has faced challenges that match ...

Lower Kuskokwim School District buildings served as evacuation centers during the storm in Newtok, Kipnuk, Nightmute, Kwigillingok, Kwethluk and Tununak.

Western Alaska’s massive storm last weekend sent residents of six communities in the Lower Kuskokwim School District to their school buildings for refuge. Classrooms turned into bedrooms, gyms ...

Federal and state agencies both manage the lower Kuskokwim River, and they’re currently at odds, leaving fishermen unsure of what’s legal and where they can fish.

State and the federal managers not only disagree on who has jurisdiction to manage the lower Kuskokwim salmon fishery, they disagree on the strength of the king salmon run.

The Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge has declared federal management of the lower Kuskokwim River king salmon harvest. The refuge, in consultation with the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish ...

The Lower Kuskokwim School District needs to move the school, but local officials say finding money for a new school has been challenging.