Akiak News

JUNEAU, Alaska-Alaskans living in the Yupiit and Lower Yukon regional educational attendance areas may now be eligible for disaster unemployment assistance if they have been unable to work or unable to pursue their own business as a direct result of the disaster.

The Eagle River Seventh-Day Adventist Church has organized a donation dropoff to aid the people of Eagle who lost their homes to flooding this spring.

State responders are keeping on eye on villages threatened by floodwaters. Elders and pregnant women have been evacuated from the flooded Kuskokwim River village of Akiak.

Cleanup and damage assessment continued Friday in Eagle after a devastating flood caused by ice jams from the Yukon River caused extensive damage throughout the community.

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Efforts are under way in Eagle to assess the damage caused when ice jams on the Yukon River caused massive flooding in the community.

Elders and pregnant women have been evacuated from a flooded Kuskokwim River village.

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A baseline erosion assessment of Alaska communities plagued by mounting effects of global warming has identified 26 communities in need of priority action.