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KYUK traveled with a delegation of federal, state and tribal officials to Kipnuk and Kwigillingok. Here’s what we heard from officials and people in those communities.
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From volunteer-powered efforts to provide essential items, to the massive, multi-agency push to shore up village infrastructure, Bethel shows what a regional hub can do in crisis.
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Hundreds of the people displaced by ex-typhoon Halong were children in the middle of their school year. More than 100 of the evacuated students are now taking classes in Bethel.
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As the outage nears the six-week mark and power infrastructure across the region undergoes repairs in the wake of ex-typhoon Halong, the lower Kuskokwim River community hopes a solution is around the corner.
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Storm-impacted communities on the Kuskokwim Delta coast and upriver will have additional opportunity to harvest moose, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
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The parents of the 20-year-old whose body was found in Bethel in November 2023 under suspicious circumstances are suing for alleged negligence, discrimination, and emotional distress.
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The Kuskokwim Delta community evacuated dozens of residents and welcomed in dozens from nearby coastal villages hit hardest by the storm. As cold weather arrives, many still don't know if their homes will be livable again.
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The Alaska Federation of Natives annual convention took place last weekend in Anchorage, as hundreds of evacuees from communities impacted by the remnants of Typhoon Halong arrived at emergency shelters nearby.
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Police and search and rescue crews are requesting the public’s assistance in locating 34-year-old Randy Jimmie, who has been missing in Bethel for two weeks.
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During the storm, wind speeds on the island reached 100 miles per hour and caused massive flooding of low-lying areas, floating homes off their foundations in Nightmute and destroying the subsistence site known as Umkumiut.
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Severe erosion in the coastal community has put critical infrastructure in peril and destroyed a vital archaeological lens into the past.
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Half a dozen helicopter crews and other aircrafts have worked since the weekend to move people and supplies where they’re needed in the storm-battered Kuskokwim Delta.