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It takes an immense amount of work and stamina for a dog team and musher to make it to the finish line of a 300-mile race. That’s especially true for the last team to finish.
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Not all mushers are quiet, but Raymond Alexie is, and seems to find solace in the near-silent hours with his dogs. He is an observer. Learning how his dogs behave, knowing when to push them and when to take it slow is what has made him so successful.
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A Mountain Village man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing a man while burglarizing his home.
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The Alaska National Guard’s annual community outreach program, Operation Santa Claus, was delayed in rural Southwestern Alaska, but it wasn’t because of the rainy and icy weather. KYUK’s Francisco Martínezcuello was covering the event when the Black Hawk helicopter assigned to fly Santa and Mrs. Claus had to make room for additional passengers.
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Alaska State Troopers are accusing two people of smuggling drugs into the Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Center. They say that two people that are currently in jail organized it.
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Bethel Regional High School hosted its annual wrestling invitational tournament during Veterans Day weekend. Both boys and girls teams from Anchorage, Fairbanks, and across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta competed.
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On Nov. 9, after a three-week trial, a jury found 47-year-old Paul James Jr. guilty on a dozen charges ranging from sexual assault and kidnapping to incest and manufacturing alcohol.
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Before they died, Jennifer Kirk and Sue Sue Norton were both victims of domestic violence. But the men involved, the ex-mayor’s sons, faced few consequences despite a long history of similar allegations.
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Bethel Regional High School hosted a Veterans Day Celebration on Wednesday, Nov. 8 to honor veterans from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region.
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On Nov. 7, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that disaster assistance teams had scheduled a visit to Akiachak this week to help people register for disaster assistance from the ice jam and snowmelt flooding that occurred this past spring.
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It only took 10 days to fill the Kuskokwim 300 registration cap. This is the 45th running of the premier middle distance sled dog race in the world, spanning 300 miles of traditional trails along the Kuskokwim River. The race date is set for Friday, Jan. 26.
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Bethel Regional High School Varsity Wrestling teams traveled to Anchorage to compete in the Mountain City Wrestling Invitational held on Nov. 3 and Nov. 4.