Alakanuk News

When Peter Moore was younger, his grandmother told him that he had a special role to play when people died.

A program that has removed mountains of junk from hard-to-reach Alaska villages will expand next summer when it helps villages along the Yukon River turn used engine oil into valuable heating fuel.

By Scott Christiansen Anchorage Press Published/Last Modified on Thursday, October 9, 2008 1:12 AM CDT Apparently someone has a beef with the Alakanuk Tribal Council, the federally recognized Yupik tribe in ...

LOCATION: On a south fork of the Yukon River, about nine miles south of Alakanuk, 18 miles southwest of Emmonak on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and 500 miles northwest of Anchorage.

An Alakanuk man is in jail on assault charges after Alaska State Troopers say he got drunk and fired a gun at several people, injuring a 14-year-old girl.

In this fifth year of the war, the Pentagon and Veterans Affairs officials are paying close attention to the 38 percent of veterans who live in rural areas, across the nation.

Alaska State Troopers say an Alakanuk man has died in a house fire. The Alakanuk Police Department told troopers that the body of 64-year-old Charles Clyde Smith was found in the remains of the house. via Anchorage Daily News